Amorim DEMANDS Man Utd sign shock Maresca flop

Tom Weber

Updated: 18 Nov 2024 10:58 CST
3 min read

Ruben Amorim has included Yunus Akgun on his shortlist of Manchester United targets, according to Turkish media.

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The Galatasaray winger has put his name on the map this season with his outstanding performances in the Europa League. Akgun was unplayable when the Turkish giants put Tottenham to the sword earlier this month and his record in the competition currently stands at four goals in four games.

All told, the 24-year-old has netted six times and provided two assists in 16 games across all competitions, adequately filling the massive void left behind by Kerem Akturkoglu when he joined Benfica in the summer.

Even before his stunning display against Spurs, Akgun wasn't an unfamiliar name to English audiences. The Turkey international spent the previous season on loan at Leicester, but he struggled to make the grade under Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca, only playing 885 minutes in the Championship over the course of the campaign.

Amorim wants Akgun

Despite the fact that he didn't leave much of an impression on English football, it is now claimed that new Man Utd head coach Ruben Amorim wants to bring him to Old Trafford.

Sabah asserts that the versatile attacker already caught the 39-year-old's attention at Sporting CP and that the latter has now included him on his shortlist of Man Utd targets.

The Red Devils, it is claimed, have agreed to monitor Akgun's performances until January after Amorim expressed 'a positive opinion' of the player.

Fabrizio Romano previously reported that the key phrase Amorim used when discussing transfer business was 'intensity' and this is certainly one of the traits of Akgun, as exhibited in the Spurs clash when Galatasaray's intense pressing suffocated their English opponents.

Whether the 24-year-old has the necessary quality to perform in the Premier League is a different question. He seems a rather surprising target for the Red Devils, to say the least.

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