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Manchester United have intensified talks with main switch goal Joshua Zirkzee within the final week as AC Milan look like switching focus to Chelsea’s Romelu Lukaku.
The Crimson Devils are desperately looking for a striker to assist Rasmus Hojlund carry the goalscoring burden at Outdated Trafford subsequent season.
Canadian Jonathan David has been linked to the membership however the hottest title proper now could be definitely that of Dutchman Zirkzee.
Italian information web site calciomercato claims that Zirkzee’s agent Kia Joorabchian “within the final week has intensified contacts with Manchester United.”
The web site reviews that “the English membership has not but spoken to Bologna, however try to achieve an settlement with the agent. Zirkzee is taken into account the lacking participant, the precise profile to make the offensive division make a leap in high quality. And United understood that discovering a gathering level with Kia would put the negotiations heading in the right direction.”
It has beforehand been reported that United have had extra luck coping with the Dutchman’s agent as they’re apparently keen to pay the agent charges that AC Milan appear so reluctant to do.
Calciomercato definitely backs up this facet of occasions as they report that “Kia Joorabchian has made requests thought of exorbitant by Ibrahimovic, Furlani and Moncada. 15 million euros is some huge cash, which Milan doesn’t intend to pay.”
Experiences this morning in Italy additionally appear optimistic for United as they state that Milan are shifting focus from Zirkzee to former United striker, Romelu Lukaku.
La Gazzetto dello Sport report that the Belgian is “one of many principal choices that the administration is engaged on” and the facet from the San Siro “would transfer away from the €40 million wanted for the fundamental funding for Zirkzee.”
Moreover, “loaning Lukaku prices a lot much less” than a deal for the 23 12 months previous and even when they can’t persuade Chelsea to comply with yet one more mortgage, “even a doable buy negotiation would weigh much less on the Rossoneri coffers.”
The paper additionally highlights that the Belgian can be drawn to returning to Milan after his spell with Inter and the connection between Chelsea and Milan is robust after current offers for Christian Pulisic and Ruben Loftus-Cheek.
Had been Milan to actually shift focus to Lukaku, it will signify a giant benefit for United as it will knock out their largest competitor for Zirkzee’s signature.
Nonetheless, it was relayed right here yesterday that the striker can be completely happy to remain at Bologna, so United should still have to persuade the participant that England is the truth is his very best transfer within the brief time period future.
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