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Man Utd transfer news today: Romano REVEAL, Amorim RAID for Spain ace, €90m midfielder BATTLE
Robin Bairner
- 6 Dec 2024 01:57 CST
- 5 min read
All the latest Manchester United transfer news, rumours and gossip, as Ruben Amorim targets a surprise striker and plots the Red Devils’ path to a midfield star with a huge price tag.
Man Utd January deals
Romano says that Man Utd will leave it to the last minute before deciding their strategy in the January transfer window, with new head coach Ruben Amorim more closely focused on assessing the players he already has at his disposal.
Speaking via his YouTube channel, the football transfer news reporter said: “Ruben Amorim is fully focused on the pitch. He wants to understand what these Manchester United perform. He’s got full focus on the squad. Then closer to Christmas, they’ll have meetings to decide what to do in 2025.”
Romano did reveal one position where Amorim already seems to have made up his mind, however.
“Left-back is a position that they will for sure cover next year – let’s see if it’s January or summer – but Milos Kerkez is a player they like,” he said.
“With Randal Kolo Muani, zero contact at the moment. He could leave PSG but for the moment there’s nothing with Manchester United.”
Porto striker Amorim’s priority
Amorim has surprisingly moved to make Porto striker Samu Omorodion his transfer priority ahead of Sporting CP’s Viktor Gyokeres.
Having come from the Lisbon club, it had been presumed that the Swede would be Amorim’s main priority, yet according to El Nacional, he is more interested in signing Omorodion, who was close to moving to Chelsea in the summer.
It is said this idea has the support of the Man Utd directors, with a transfer fee of €60 million set to be enough to prise the Spain international away from Porto, who signed him for just €15m in the summer.
Omorodion has shone while in Portugal, scoring 13 goals in 16 games, which earned him his first senior international recognition.
He is said to be open to a move to the Premier League, with El Nacional claiming everything is now hinges on negotiations between the clubs.
STATS
Samu Omorodion
F (C)
Porto
Samu Omorodion
F (C)
Porto
Patrick Dorgu transfer battle
Man Utd have emerged as serious suitors to sign Patrick Dorgu from Lecce – but they trail Chelsea in this particular race.
TeamTalk reports that the Red Devils are chasing the 20-year-old Denmark defender, yet he could be one to watch when it comes to the summer transfer market. The left-back is expected to be on offer around €40m, though as more teams join the chase, this figure is liable to rise.
Chelsea are said to have taken a keen interest in Dorgu while Antonio Conte has set the tall defender up as Napoli’s “primary target”. West Ham and RB Leipzig are other sides credited with a serious interest.
Lecce sporting director Pantaleo Corvino told Gazzetta dello Sport: “Dorgu is a potential champion. Correction: he is a champion. Left or right winger, he runs like three players and can find the goal. He has an engine that no one else has.
“A player like him has admirers, of course, and there are plenty of them, even abroad. But Dorgu will stay here, and then we’ll talk about it in the summer, because his destiny is already set—his future belongs to him.”
Three-way fight for Hugo Larsson
Manchester United also find themselves in a battle to sign Eintracht Frankfurt midfielder Hugo Larsson, who has had a price of €90 million slapped on his head by the Bundesliga side.
The 20-year-old Swede is primarily a ball-winning midfielder but is seen as a player with so much potential that Liverpool and Real Madrid are also tracking him, Sky Sport Deutschland reports.
United should be wary in this case. Although Larsson’s level has improved dramatically in recent months, the former Malmo midfielder only has an Estimated Transfer Value (ETV) of €20m.
Current ETV
Hugo Larsson
M (C)
E. Frankfurt
Hugo Larsson
M (C)
E. Frankfurt
ETV Range
€14.9M - €24.8M
Alphonso Davies: Transfer update
Man Utd have also been linked with Alphonso Davies, who has been more closely associated with a switch to Real Madrid.
The door remains open for the Canada international to take several different paths, with his contract at Bayern Munich up in June 2025.
“Alphonso Davies doesn’t have any sort of agreement with Real Madrid or any other club so everything is open,” Fabrizio Romano confirmed. “His agent also confirmed how Bayern remain a possibility for him. We know there’s also interest from England. We’ll see what happens there.”
