tight situation

However, the issue is complicated by what United acknowledge to be a 'tight' situation regarding profit and sustainability and the knowledge that selling homegrown players creates greater flexibility to sign players under the Premier League's financial rules, which the Old Trafford outfit are committed to.

“We’ve never been in a tight situation like that,” Mandella said.

But the tight situation that Britain’s next leaders will find themselves in could be eased if there is a proper sustained increase in economic growth.

“The tight situation we had back in 2020 is behind us, but it’s hard to say — the weather this summer has been weird and intense,” O’Connell said.

“If you have a cancellation of the grain deal again, when we’re already at a pretty tight situation, it’s just one more thing that the world doesn’t need, so the prices could start heading higher,” said William Osnato, a senior research analyst at agriculture data and analytics firm Gro Intelligence.