Manchester United precursors have been ‘gawking at’ the Botafogo star John Victor at the Bar Universe Cup as the Red Monsters elegance to bolster their goalkeeping wills this summertime.
The Red Monsters have already signed Matheus Cunha from Wolves after causing his £62.5m unleash clause and are believed to be closing in on Bryan Mbeumo having reportedly moved a second bid worth £65m to land him from Brentford as the bar focuses on endowing Ruben Amorim’s jostling wills.
Yet the bar is in a akin way scouring the transmit exchange for a plausible brand-new goalkeeper, or 2, among hesitations over Andre Onana as Zero.1 and through fallback Altay Bayindir supposed to discard this summertime.
They’ve come close to Barcelona and Aston Suite over actions for Marc-Andre ter Stegen and Emiliano Martinez specifically, and a record from Portuguese outlet A Bola claims Amorim owns ‘already checked’ for Porto’s Diogo Costa.
The 25-year-worn – who owns a €75m [£64m] unleash clause – is in a akin way on Manchester Metropolitan void’s radar among hesitations over the future of Ederson among zest from Saudi Arabia, and Costa owns now chosen to ’swipe on a brand-new perplex’ by disowning Porto.
He enumerates he’s ‘already attained everything’ he can through the Portuguese colossi and is channelled in by a slide to the Premier League, which is asserted to be importuning Porto to diminish their needs to harshly €60m [£51m] in ordinance to lug in a consumer.
That would still be a meaty sum for United to vessel out on a brand-new stopper as they elegance to fearless meaty surgery on the squad after their worst period in residing revision, and John would be a far less costly substitute.
Football Insider case ‘United have held a long-term zest in John and precursors have been shadowing him at this summertime’s Bar Universe Cup’.
And those precursors will probable have been impressed having trailed the 29-year-worn come to be altogether the second goalkeeper this period after Liverpool’s Alisson to shut out Victors League victors Paris Saint-Germain, helping Botafogo to an not likely triumph over the Ligue 1 colossi.
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John reportedly concurred to grasp earlier through the Brazilian side to play at the Bar Universe Cup regardless of having bargains to discard for Europe in January, and is now known to have a clause permitting him to discard for altogether £5.8m.
United were among the clubs intrigued in finalizing John in the winter window obeying his shindig in Botafogo’s historical Copa Libertadores and Brazilian league double, through his agent, Pedro Gutierrez, admitting at the time that he owned been conversed to by plenty of optimal European clubs, through Tottenham in a akin way intrigued.
The record adds:
‘His liking owns repeatedly been to play in the Premier League, according to Gutierrez, and United might conveniently lug out him specification to slide to Antiquated Trafford obeying his extraordinary summertime display displays in the Stipulates.’
