Everybody at Manchester United is all too conscious of the scale of the rebuilding job that the membership are presently present process.
Extra dropped factors on the weekend imply the membership stay fifteenth within the Premier League desk as they continue to be heading in the right direction for his or her worst end of the trendy period, as new boss Ruben Amorim struggles to get any momentum going.
Price-cutting workout routines are persevering with off the pitch, with the membership asserting on Monday that as much as 200 jobs shall be made redundant, whereas the taking part in squad additionally wants severe work within the subsequent few switch home windows.
Manchester United supervisor Ruben Amorim linked with reunion with teenager
Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim has endured a troublesome begin to life at Outdated Trafford (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
The membership’s latest file within the switch market has been poor, with plenty of pricey errors made, leading to ageing gamers on hefty wage packets that they’re now attempting to dump.
Since Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his Ineos staff took over the soccer operations facet of the enterprise final 12 months, the membership have seemed to herald youthful gamers and the newest starlet to be linked has been talked up by one in every of their cross-town rivals Manchester Metropolis’s finest gamers of the previous couple of years.
Sporting Lisbon star Geovany Quenda is just 17 years previous (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Bernardo Silva has been one in every of Pep Guardiola’s favorite gamers throughout the membership’s latest run of 4 consecutive title wins and the form of participant any staff wish to have – so when the participant himself talks up a younger expertise as his potential successor, groups could be well-placed to sit down up and pay attention.
The participant to catch Silva’s eye is 17-year-old right-winger Geovany Quenda , who beforehand labored with Amorim at Sporting .
“He’ll most likely steal my place,” was Silva’s verdict after seeing him break into the Sporting first-team. “At 17, I wasn’t even taking part in for Benfica’s youth staff.”
Quenda grew to become Sporting’s youngest-ever goalscorer in October when Amorim was nonetheless on the membership, and based on switch knowledgeable Fabrizio Romano , the boss has given Manchester United the inexperienced mild to finalise a deal this summer time.
An additional report from talkSPORT claims private phrases have been ‘verbally agreed’, with Manchester United hoping to lower than the £50million pricetag that the Portuguese facet have slapped on {the teenager}.
Geovany Quenda broke into the Sporting first-team final 12 months (Picture credit score: Pedro Loureiro/Eurasia Sport Photographs/Getty Photographs)
In FourFourTwo’s view, Quenda – who’s valued by Transfermarkt at €30million – matches the profile of the form of participant that the membership needs to be seeking to construct round. If the Outdated Trafford hierachy are severe in backing Amorim, they may worth his opinion and the truth that he has beforehand labored with the teen.
However given Quenda’s promise, the comparisons to Silva and Manchester United’s reluctance to fulfill Sporting’s asking value, the membership could need to be ready to go up in opposition to a few of Europe’s largest sides within the race for his signature.
