'Bernardo Silva backs me as Portugal successor – now I'm Ruben Amorim's top Man Utd target'

A Sporting starlet hailed by some Ruben Amorim and Bernardo Silva could find himself astatine the centre of a transportation conflict betwixt Manchester United and Manchester City

Manchester United person their sights reportedly acceptable connected a young Portuguese sensation hailed by Bernardo Silva.

United are embarking connected a caller section with the accomplishment of Ruben Amorim from Sporting CP. The caller brag has rapidly looked to permission his imprint, with Ruud van Nistelrooy leaving his coaching presumption aft the determination was made to not support him on.

And Amorim isn't conscionable bringing successful his trusted backroom unit from Sporting, but helium mightiness besides poach immoderate of the club's champion players. Fresh from his Champions League hat-trick against Manchester City, striker Viktor Gyokeres is viewed by galore arsenic a imaginable target.

However, determination is besides a buzz astir Geovany Quenda, the young winger who etched his sanction into past books arsenic the youngest-ever scorer for the nine astatine 17 years, 5 months and 27 days - a grounds that overshadows Portuguese large Simao and adjacent Cristiano Ronaldo.

Amorim is simply a large instrumentality of Quenda, who is present a cardinal transportation people for United arsenic they contemplate offloading big-money flop Antony successful January, reports the Daily Star.

"He's a precise talented kid," Amorim said of Quenda. "Very physically robust, precise focused, with his feet firmly connected the ground. That's precise important for a young player.

"He got his accidental and determination was nary accidental to instrumentality it away, nary doubt, nothing. I deliberation he's going to beryllium a large player, but let's springiness it time."

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Bernardo, 30, is different admirer, saying the youngster could "steal" his spot successful Portugal's nationalist team. The City playmaker said: "He volition astir apt bargain my place. At 17, I wasn't adjacent playing for Benfica's younker team."

He could perchance instrumentality his spot astatine City, who are besides believed to beryllium tracking the youngster, with sporting manager Hugo Viana acceptable to articulation the Premier League champions from Sporting adjacent summer.

Benfica were really Quenda’s archetypal large nine earlier helium was snapped up by their metropolis rivals successful 2019, becoming a prima of the club’s Cristiano Ronaldo Academy. This season, helium has integrated into the first-team, chiefly playing arsenic a wing-back successful a 3-4-3 formation.

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