Man Utd priced out of signing Champions League final star but…

Carlo Garganese

• Updated: 27 Jun 2023 07:54 BST
• 3 min read

Manchester United have been priced out of signing one Champions League final star but are well in the race for another.

Transfer journalist Simone Togna, who is one of the best Inter Milan experts in Italy, has given an update on the players who could leave the Nerazzurri this summer.

Manchester United target Lautaro Martinez is considered not for sale, with Togna reporting on The Italian Football Podcast that it would take a bid of €150 million for Inter to consider selling.

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Lautaro is considered an indispensable member of the squad, and he scored an impressive 28 goals in all competitions last season as Inter won the Coppa Italia, Supercoppa Italiana and reached the Champions League final.

He has scored 102 goals in 238 games for Inter since joining from Racing in 2018.

The 25-year-old played a key role in Inter winning the Scudetto in 2021 under Antonio Conte.

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He has a contract until 2026 at San Siro.

The €150m requested by Inter Milan is most certainly too high for Man Utd, who have thus started looking elsewhere.

United are in the market for a top-class attacker this summer and have had Lautaro on their shortlist, albeit below primary targets Victor Osimhen and Harry Kane.

Both Osimhen and Kane are also valued by Napoli and Tottenham at well above €100m and will thus be complicated signings for United, too.

But there is some good news for United as Togna says that United are well in the race to sign another Champions League final star in Onana.

The Nerazzurri could sell Onana, Togna explains, if they receive an offer of more than €60m.

The Cameroonian is a huge favourite of Erik ten Hag, with Man Utd expected to table an official bid in the coming weeks.

The pair worked together at Ajax, with Onana playing a key role as Ten Hag’s side reached the 2019 Champions League semi-final - being seconds away from making the final.

Onana only arrived at Inter a year ago on a free transfer after he saw out his contract at Ajax.

The 26-year-old has been a revelation at San Siro and was one the best goalkeepers in all of Europe this past season, perhaps the best of all in the Champions League where he had eight clean sheets.