Posted Adoga Michael Oyi
Yahoo Sport UK 12 May 2018
Harry Kane (left) to Arsenal, while Manchester United’s shopping list is said to include Milinkovic-Savic (centre) and Alex Sandro (right)
You probably don’t take much notice of the Metro unless you’re enduring an especially boring journey on public transport and you find a rolled up copy of it on the seat next to you. But today it has excelled itself by claiming to know everything there is to know about Manchester United’s summer transfer plans.
According to Metro.co.uk, which appears to be making a concerted effort to distinguish itself from the aforementioned free newspaper by proudly naming itself after an actual URL, Jose Mourinho is planning a “£150m spending spree” but is planning to top up that figure by selling three or possibly four players.
These include Jose’s least favourite man Luke Shaw, for whom the Red Devils may be forced to accept £18m due to his £130,000 wages, with Tottenham and Everton interested.
Meanwhile, Matteo Darmian is set to join Juventus, although the Italians are not prepared to meet the £15m asking price, Daley Blind is wanted by Roma and Marouane Fellaini will leave Old Trafford unless United increase their latest contract offer of £145,000 a week. He can’t be expected to live on that.
Altogether, the Metro calculates that these sales will remove more than £20m from the wage bill, plus adding around £50m to the transfer budget, giving Mourinho more chance of landing his top targets.
These are Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, the £80m-rated Lazio midfielder, Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Fred and a replacement for Shaw, with Tottenham’s Danny Rose and Juve’s Alex Sandro the preferred choices. So now you know everything, unless Metro.co.uk is wrong.
Kane to join Arsenal for £100m?
Arsene Wenger has signed off his final pre-match press conference in style by saying Tottenham could be forced to sell Harry Kane to Arsenal for £100m to help pay for their new stadium – prompting all the tabloids to report the laughable claim as fact on their back pages.
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