As Sporting defender Gonçalo Inácio has become one of the main candidates to leave the Lions this summer, newspaper Correio da Manhã today features an update on his situation.
The story claims the interested clubs are still ‘far’ from reaching the price for his release clause. The Lisbon side will not let him go for less than that €45m price tag, so that’s the only way he’s leaving.
And as Manchester United show up as one of the candidates to land the 20-year-old, the outlet has a couple of things to say regarding his potential move to Old Trafford.
According to Correio da Manhã, manager Erik ten Hag ‘appreciates Inácio’s characteristics’, as he believes the player has the qualities ‘to impose himself in English football’.
And while Inácio is ‘calm’ and ‘comfortable’ at Sporting, it’s said that he knows playing at a club ‘of Manchester United’s dimension’ and ‘in the best league in the world’ would ‘catapult him to another level’.
The Red Devils are the only club named in the story as a side who could actually land Inácio this summer.
Now it all seems like a matter of triggering his release clause, or finding another way to please Sporting financially.
