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Man Utd transfers: Done deals, team line up for next season, current targets, outgoings
MANCHESTER UNITED transfers - done deals, signings, team line up for next season and outgoings.
Man United signing Fred scores stunning strike in Brazil training
MANCHESTER UNITED
Manager: Jose Mourinho
Position last season: Runners-up
Nickname: The Red Devils
Ground: Old Trafford
Capacity: 74,994
Players In:
Fred (Shakhtar Donetsk, undisclosed), Diogo Dalot (Porto, undisclosed), Lee Grant (Stoke, undisclosed)
Players Out:
Michael Carrick (retired), Daley Blind (Ajax, undisclosed), Joe Riley (Bradford, undisclosed), Dean Henderson (Sheffield United, loan), Sam Johnstone (West Brom, £6.5million)
Possible line-up:
Current targets: United appear to want to strengthen at centre-back with Harry Maguire, Toby Alderweireld and Leonardo Bonnuci all linked.
There’s continued talk around long-term target Gareth Bale but he is expected to stay.
Mourinho has admitted he wants two more players, however.
“One thing is what I would like, another thing is what is going to happen,” Mourinho said.
“[If you had any wish…?] I would get two more players.”
United and Tottenham may even agree to a shock swap deal on deadline day, according to Sky Sports man Michael Bridge.
United pulled off the biggest swap deal in football history in January when Alexis Sanchez and Henrikh Mkhitaryan switched allegiances.
And Bridge thinks they could do another one by trading Anthony Martial in for Spurs centre-back Toby Alderweireld.
Both players want to leave their clubs and are at the centre of their own transfer wranglings.
Key Man: Paul Pogba
Chances: After the way City went about their title charge last season, the pressure is on United boss Jose Mourinho to get the best from his squad on a consistent basis.
Highly-rated full-back Diogo Dalot and Brazil midfielder Fred have bolstered a squad which has some work to do to catch up with Manchester City, but expect the Red Devils to give them more of a run for their money this time around.