Man Utd enter race for Newcastle target 'as back-up option' despite 'major red flag'

Man Utd have joined the race to symbol previous Everton demonstrator Dominic Calvert-Lewin as they terrific visual beauties for a ‘previously-up companies’ for Benjamin Sesko.
The Red Evil ones have spent most coinage on a brand-new pouncing trident in the form of Matheus Cunha, Bryan Mbeumo and Sesko, with the last wrapping up up with previously this week.
Sesko arrived from RB Leipzig in a prearrangement well worth £74m, while Cunha joined from Wolves for £62.5m and Mbeumo accepted from Brentford in a £65m transfer.
The copious financial outlay in the trio is a responses to a season in which only four Premier League sides scored less aims than Man Utd as Ruben Amorim’s side ended up 15th.
Rasmus Hojlund has been tied with a slide away from Old Trafford this summer, with AC Milan allegedly fascinated, and presently Man Utd could add Calvert-Lewin as previously up.
Ben Jacobs divulged interest from Newcastle in Calvert-Lewin last month, he wrote on X: ‘Newcastle retain an interest in Dominic Calvert-Lewin, yet are reticent to overfill his stipulation. Entirely nothing is developed presently, nor has a brand-new administer been positioned to Calvert-Lewin so much. #NUFC are still determining multiple varieties after missing out on out on Joao Pedro, and discovering out Callum Wilson would not lengthen.
‘A slide will absolutely only look if Calvert-Lewin undervalues his stipulation from 12 months previously once #NUFC administered a concrete administer. And also then, Newcastle are slightly obscure of Calvert-Lewin’s injury record.’
Around the genuinely same time in early July, transfer maven Fabrizio Romano conferred an update on Man Utd interest in Calvert-Lewin, he said: “What taken place with Calvert-Lewin is that the gamer has been available to Manchester Joined.
“It’s not that Man Joined started dealings for Calvert-Lewin as brand-new demonstrator. The gamer has been available as an avenue on a preserve transfer, a cheap avenue for a gamer who has debacle, knows the league and can be remunerative for any type of bar.
“So Man Joined accepted up the eventual price of the prearrangement. It strategies, apparently, the salary, the commission, the motive of the gamer, who would be, apparently, annoyingly amenable and eager to symbol up with Manchester Joined at some point in this summer transfer abode window.
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“But at the minute, it’s not yet a concrete arrangement.”
While there were other records around the genuinely same time grossing think that Man Utd owned hauled out of a prearrangement for the previous Everton demonstrator over a ‘calculated red flag’.
It was given at the time that ‘any type of opportunity prearrangement is off as influential figures missed brief of linking in lengthy explanations due to discovering his injury record as a calculated red flag once going in scour of fresh firepower’.
But presently Caught Offside claim Man Utd are mulling over the England international ‘as previously-up companies’ ‘touring the chance of incorporating Calvert-Lewin to Ruben Amorim’s squad as a depth companies in oblige’.
The internet site insist Newcastle could still be an companies and add on Man Utd interest: ‘The brand-new Joined honcho is keen on having a solid rotational arrangement, tying to the previous Everton male as a well-versed 3rd or 4th-companies demonstrator who could lend remunerative perfuse across a long season.’