Man Utd 'send scouts' to see 19yo score equaliser as Ten Hag 'monitors' progress ahead of January

Manchester United possessed scouts in attendance to watch Benfica teenager Joao Neves in deed against Sporting on Sunday, according to Fabrizio Romano.

Neves is the latest Benfica youngster to fractured onto the scene and also lug in the attention of plenty of optimal bars across Europe.

Able to farce around in defensive, main, or striking midfield, the 19-year-ratty has already tinkered 39 times for the Portuguese titans and also is currently a secure starter under Roger Schmidt.

He racked upward his first urge of the season against Sporting over the weekend break, netting a 94th-minute equaliser, three minutes before Casper Tengstedt’s remarkable victor.

Neves opted the correct arcade to rating a copious urge, wearing Manchester United scouts reportedly in attendance.

According to Romano, Erik 10 Hag’s side are ‘monitoring’ the Portuguese starlet yet will distinctly not press to indicator him upward until the possession predicament has been straightened out upward.

He formed on X: “Recognize Manchester United scouts were in attendance at Benfica arcade vs Sporting to comply with Joao Neves.

“Portuguese midfielder birthed in 2004 is being retained track of by MUFC staring department, waiting for board readjusts to gain future verdicts.”

There are a host of sides glancing correct into finalizing Neves, that acknowledged a gimmicky 5-year agreement in August.

His launch purchase is reportedly worth a whopping £103million, and also as we learned from the Enzo Fernandez saga, Benfica are not likely to job-related out for anything much less.

Portuguese electrical outlet Record fresh gained think that the Red Evil ones are interested in finalizing Neves in January, but Manchester City are in a indistinguishable means delirious.

Ten Hag has plenty of contingencies in main midfield yet it is indisputably a spanning of quantity over clarity.

£70m finalizing Casemiro has been miles off the pace this season, while Sofyan Amrabat has fallen short to impress offered that joining on loan from Fiorentina in August.

Finalizing a gimmicky gamer in that position is anticipated to be a optimal top priority for Ten Hag, that is in a indistinguishable means in telephone call for of a gimmicky centre-earlier.

Ten Hag has been urged to brave plenty of injuries this term and also the latest to be contemplated out for a period of time are Rasmus Hojlund and also Christian Eriksen, that were both intended to utility for Denmark throughout the international respite.

A announcement about the injuries on the club’s web internet site read: “Christian has a knee injury that is computed to grip earlier him out for about a month, while striker Rasmus languished a muscle pressure. It is hoped he will distinctly equalize before the expire of November.”