Manchester United are keen to wrap up all their summer transfer business as rapidly as possible and avoid the late glut of newcomers that complicated Louis Van Gaal’s plans last year.

The Reds will up their pursuit of PSV Eindhoven’s Memphis Depay and ideally want all their new faces in place by the time the club fly out for their pre-season tour of American in mid-July.

Van Gaal was appointed in May last year as David Moyes’ successor but his World Cup commitments with Holland didn’t help make for a smooth introduction or having his desired squad in place for the 2014 kick-off.

Ander Herrera and Luke Shaw were July imports but Angel di Maria, Daley Blind, Marcos Rojo and Radamel Falcao were not captured until the campaign was already under way.

Bedding so many buys in without the luxury of a pre-season jaunt put the Reds on the back foot as Van Gaal set about implementing his philosophy.

The Dutchman is desperate to avoid the same disjointed summer planning and executive vice chairman Ed Woodward has been on the case laying the groundwork for the next close season’s splurge.

Depay is emerging as the likely first through the door.

“We have had a telephone call from them (United) about him,” PSV’s technical director Marcel Brands has already revealed this week.

“But no talks have been held. Several top clubs have expressed interest.”

Brands has confirmed Depay won’t move from the Philips Stadion cheaply and PSV have turned down a near £15m bid from Spurs this term.

“It will be much higher than the offer from Tottenham Hotspur,” the technical director added. “He will be very expensive.”

That will not worry United as they pursue their new ‘Galactico’ style of recruitment following on from last summer’s record £155m outlay.

Depay scored last weekend in PSV’s Erevidisie title-winning 4-1 victory against Heerenveen and the youngster, who was in Van Gaal’s Holland World Cup squad last summer, is understood to have been advised by the United manager to remain at PSV this season before looking to move on.

Now is his time and with the early capture of the Erevidisie title the road is clear for United to finalise the capture early.

Similarly, Jurgen Klopp’s departure from Borussia Dortmund at the end of the season is likely to bring forward defender Mats Hummels’ decision to leave the Westfalenstadion and the Reds can snap up their target as soon as the Bundesliga relegation battle is decided.