Fresh from their Conference League success, AS Roma want to use the win as a stepping stone to bigger and greater things under José Mourinho, which comes through improving the squad.
One of the areas the manager is keen to bolster is at right-back, where the temporary acquisition of Ainsley Maitland-Niles did not go well in the slightest.
Therefore, once again, the Portuguese manager will turn to a former club of his, this time Manchester United, to see if he can get someone.
While Diogo Dalot would be the logical choice here, it’s actually Aaron Wan-Bissaka who finds himself at the heart of a story from Gazzetta dello Sport.
The former Crystal Palace star has endured a rollercoaster of a season at Manchester United this season, and the idea of him leaving certainly isn’t one that fans would be against.
Gazzetta explain ‘general manager Tiago Pinto’s interest in the right-back is there’, and at the age of 24, Wan-Bissaka ‘has sufficient qualities to manage both phases of the game’.
However, ‘buying from the Premier League is never easy, also because he has a contract expiring in 2024 with the option of renewal in favour of the club’.
That’s why ‘there is talk of a request of around €30m, even if AS Roma would be willing to move trying to offer a loan with the right of redemption’.
The alternative would be the aforementioned Dalot, who would be cheaper, as his cost ‘seems to be lower than that of Wan-Bissaka’s’, with the newspaper suggesting ‘about €15m’.
The man who holds all the keys right now is Erik ten Hag, ‘who will have to decide on which one to bet on’ for his squad at Manchester United going forward.
Once he has made his choice, AS Roma could be there waiting for get the one he decides to discard.
