On Wednesday, we covered the news from Portugal that Manchester United had appeared in the race to sign Manuel Ugarte.
It was said the Red Devils would be willing to trigger the player’s release clause, and were ready to spend a lot of money to lure him to Old Trafford.
A Bola follow up on that on Thursday, and bring some more information on the matter, mostly from the midfielder’s end of things.
They recall that Manchester United are ‘receptive to paying the €60m’ of his clause, and with them, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain all keen, he is ‘really on his way out’ of Sporting CP this summer, with an exit a ‘certainty’.
The first is that he gets to play in the Premier League, and the second being that he knows ‘he is a player that pleases’ Erik ten Hag, who ‘sees him as a player of the future’.
While that might be also the case with the aforementioned Blues and Mauricio Pochettino, Manchester United can offer him Champions League football, and they are ready to ‘invest heavily in the summer market’ to be able to continue their growth under the Dutchman.
With all clubs ready to trigger his release clause, the final word will be his, and it will all come down to ‘the sporting project as well as the financial issues’.
