Mid-Day Ticker: de Gea on brink of United switch, Gunners willing to sell Cesc and more

By CALEB SONNELAND

Manchester United are quickly going about the necessary transfer moves to retain the EPL title.

A week or so after securing up-and-coming English defender Phil Jones and days after Ashley Young's capture, the club has brought Atletico Madrid keeper David de Gea� in for a medical at Old Trafford presumably before his signing.