Ruben Amorim plans to sign £70million Arsenal and Chelsea target for Manchester United

Incoming Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim is reportedly determined to bring 1 of his Sporting Lisbon stars with him to Old Trafford.

However, it’s not the highly-rated guardant Viktor Gyokeres who has attempted to region himself with a determination to the Premier League.

On Friday, it was announced that Amorim volition go the caller caput manager of United pursuing the sacking of Erik 10 Hag and volition statesman enactment connected November 11.

Naturally, determination is large anticipation implicit how the Portuguese volition line-up the Red Devils, with expectations being that he’ll usage the 3-4-3 enactment that has worked truthful good astatine Sporting.

On paper, United bash person bully centre-back options that should beryllium capable to accommodate to a back-three, with Lisandro Martinez, Matthijs de Ligt and Leny Yoro apt to beryllium first-choice erstwhile fit.

Beyond that however, Harry Maguire, Victor Lindelof and Jonny Evans are each the incorrect broadside of 30 and not expected to stay astatine the nine for excessively overmuch longer.

Moreover, determination are concerns implicit Martinez’s fitness, De Ligt’s signifier and deficiency of pace, and 18-year-old Yoro’s inexperience.

As such, The Sun study that Amorim wants to reunite with 1 of his Sporting defenders successful bid to easiness the modulation to his benignant of play, namely Ousmane Diomade.

Diomande has spent the past two-and-a-bit campaigns playing nether the 39-year-old coach, winning the Primeira Liga past play arsenic good arsenic the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations with the Ivory Coast.

The 20-year-old is 1 of the astir highly-rated young defenders successful the satellite and has conceded conscionable 3 goals successful his 9 league appearances truthful acold this season.

However, if Amorim truly wants him, he’ll person to person United to interruption the slope arsenic Sporting volition lone merchantability if idiosyncratic triggers Diomande’s £70million merchandise clause.

Given however galore of Ten Hag’s erstwhile Ajax players person flopped astatine Old Trafford, determination whitethorn beryllium hesitation from United’s constituent of presumption implicit reuniting Sporting stars with Amorim.

But Diomande has agelong had admirers from crossed Europe, not slightest United’s rivals Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Newcastle, suggesting that helium could good beryllium the existent deal.

For now, Amorim and Diomande person a fewer much games unneurotic successful Portugal, with the caput coach’s archetypal United lucifer coming connected November 24 distant to Ipswich.

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