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Juventus are assured of touchdown Manchester United’s Mason Greenwood this summer time.
The previous academy star is attracting a variety of curiosity after a superb mortgage spell with Getafe in La Liga final season.
Napoli, Lazio, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia have all been credited with an curiosity within the 22 yr outdated, with each Lazio and Valencia already reported to have put in bids.
Lazio’s bid is reported to be €20 million and Valencia’s £25 million (€29.5m), with the asking worth typically reported to be €40 million (£33.8).
There was a variety of noise round Juve making Greenwood their major goal however this had pale in the previous couple of days, with some reviews suggesting they have been changing into equally, if no more eager, on one other United participant, Jadon Sancho.
However in keeping with immediately’s paper version of Corriere dello Sport, the Outdated Girl are assured of touchdown Greenwood, who reviews declare has already agreed private phrases with them. What’s extra, they’re already clear on how they’re going to elevate the cash.
One factor that had been standing of their means was the query of how additionally to fund the acquisition of Aston Villa’s Douglas Luiz. CdS say they’ve resolved this, with defensive midfielder Enzo Barrenechea and ahead Samuel Iling-Junior going the opposite means along with €30 million.
The plan now’s to promote one other Argentine who has been on mortgage at Frosinone, Matiás Soulé, for €35 million, and this and/or the departure of Federico Chiesa will fund the Greenwood buy.
“The membership’s concepts instantly embody a transfer for Greenwood, who Manchester United values at round 40 million euros. With out fully neglecting the paths that result in Sancho and Adeyemi of Borussia Dortmund,” CdS report.
“With the scheduled departure of Federico Chiesa from the category of ’97… the Outdated Girl needs to resume the flanks and the Englishman from United responds to the identikit outlined by Thiago Motta: versatile and dynamic, he may play as a second striker.”
Any transfer for Sancho could be a mortgage deal and secondary to the Greenwood transfer.
Juve have additionally dropped curiosity in Riccardo Calafiori as a consequence of Bologna’s asking worth, leaving Greenwood the out-and-out precedence for the wing addition they should adapt to their new head coach’s proposed 4-3-3 formation.
With Spanish curiosity within the Bradford-born man seeming to fade, it’s beginning to seem like a two-horse race between Juve and Lazio. However each have to promote gamers first and it might subsequently be one which drags on all summer time, one thing that won’t assist United as they themselves search to lift funds to pursue their very own new signings.
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