Manchester United closing in on PERFECT £51M signing as targets replacement now signed!
Manchester United have been boosted by the news that PSG have found a replacement for Manuel Ugarte.
Ugarte, 23, joined the French club from Sporting last summer after spending the previous two-and-a-half seasons in Portugal. He moved to Europe from South America as a teenager, months after debuting for the senior Uruguay side
While he was a first-team regular during the first-half of the season under Luis Enrique, he lost his place in the side in the second-half of the season.
talkSPORT understands MAN UNITED have made landing the Uruguay international their top priority after sealing the arrivals of Joshua Zirkzee and Leny Yoro, and now the French giants have signed Ugarte’s potential replacement.
Joao Neves is joining the French giants from Benfica – opening the door for Man United to finally complete the signing of Ugarte for £51 million.
South American football expert Tim Vickery recently told Hawksbee and Jacobs he’s the exact type of player Erik ten Hag is missing.
“I can really understand this one,” he said. “You looked at United last season and they were so easy to play through weren’t they? Opponents were just walking through them – Ugarte would be a man to help fix that.
“He reminds me of a young Javier Mascherano in that he’s a tigerish holding midfielder who can play, who can pass crisply and swiftly out of defence. I don’t think he’s quite as good as Mascherano was at that age, but he’s that type of player.
“Marcelo Bielsa [Uruguay manager] thinks the world of him. He even played Ugarte in the last game in the Copa America, started off with him in the back-three – which Guardiola did with Mascherano at Barcelona.
“He’s got that that extra little bit of versatility, which I think is very interesting indeed. I like him a lot. I think it’d be a good buy for United.”
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