Revealed: Man United rival Barcelona & PL golf equipment for 23 G/A sensation in potential €100m switch

Revealed: Man United rival Barcelona & PL golf equipment for 23 G/A sensation in potential €100m switch

Samu Aghehowa celebrates together with his Porto teammates (Photograph by Paolo Bruno/Getty Photos)

Manchester United are maintaining an in depth eye on Porto striker Samu Aghehowa forward of this summer time’s switch window, CaughtOffside understands.

The gifted 20-year-old has been in excellent kind for Porto this season, contributing a complete of 20 objectives and three assists in all competitions to this point.

Aghehowa was notably near becoming a member of Chelsea final summer time, however ended up making a shock transfer to Porto as a substitute.

It’s not straightforward to see why Chelsea have been eager on Aghehowa, who stays firmly on the radar of a number of prime golf equipment.

Sources with an in depth understanding of the scenario have knowledgeable CaughtOffside that Man Utd are joined by Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Tottenham and West Ham United in monitoring Aghehowa.

Ruben Amorim pushing for Samu Aghehowa switch

Samu Aghehowa in motion for Porto (Photograph by Octavio Passos/Getty Photos)

It’s understood that Ruben Amorim is an enormous fan of Aghehowa and is driving the Crimson Devils’ curiosity within the Spaniard, although it stays to be seen if he’ll be realistically inexpensive for them.

United’s funds aren’t the very best in the intervening time, so which may restrict what they will do within the switch market, with participant gross sales more likely to be required earlier than any main offers for gamers coming in.

Barcelona additionally actually like Aghehowa, with Lamine Yamal understood to be personally pushing for the Catalan giants to herald his worldwide teammate.

Barca don’t essentially want a brand new centre-forward that urgently, however Aghehowa seems to be like he might be a really perfect long-term substitute for the ageing Robert Lewandowski.

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Bayern, Spurs and West Ham are additionally prepared to maneuver for brand spanking new strikers this summer time, and are all contemplating Aghehowa as an choice.

Porto don’t need to promote the younger ahead, nonetheless, so it may require triggering his €100m launch clause to get a deal accomplished.

United have additionally been linked with Viktor Gyokeres as a goal up entrance, although Duncan Castles instructed The Transfers Podcast that the Sporting Lisbon striker has rejected a transfer to Outdated Trafford.

MUFC may do properly to land Aghehowa, and one imagines they’ll proceed to have a look at him and different potential attacking targets forward of the summer time.