Manchester United have agreed a deal to signal Atalanta winger Amad Traore for £27.5million, with {the teenager} anticipated to hitch the membership within the January switch window.
The MEN understands United have agreed to pay £19m up entrance, with £8.5m in add-ons, for the 18-year-old Ivory Coast winger.
The MEN revealed United have been exploring a deal for Traore on September 16 and final week reported they have been nonetheless engaged on signing the left-footed flanker, who has performed simply 30 minutes in Serie A.
Regardless of studies that Traore was set to hitch Parma, no transfer materialised and the MEN reported on Monday morning United have been nonetheless trying to finalise a deal for Traore to hitch them within the New Yr.
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United partly moved for Traore this summer time earlier than new standards is drafted up for Premier League golf equipment to signal 18 to 21-year-old overseas expertise post-Brexit.
The deal for Traore was described by sources in Italy as ‘not easy’ and United had points acquiring a visa for the African expertise.
Atalanta offered Traore’s Beneath-19 teammate, Dejan Kulusevski, to Juventus for £29.7m final 12 months and Atalanta’s academy has been described as ‘the perfect’ in Italy. Kulusevski spent final season on mortgage at Parma and sources in Italy had warned Traore wouldn’t be low-cost, regardless of his inexperience.
United have scouted Traore for 3 years and he grew to become the youngest participant, at 17 years and 109 days previous, to attain on his Serie A debut in Atalanta’s 7-1 thrashing of Udinese final season. Traore additionally travelled with the squad to Lisbon for his or her Champions League quarter-final defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in August.
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United are additionally on the verge of signing Uruguayan winger Facundo Pellistri from Penarol. Pellistri is 18 and United need youthful choices as supervisor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer used Juan Mata, 32, and Jesse Lingard, 27, in large roles once more at Luton City final month.
Solskjaer can also be eager for United’s new flankers to hasten the event of Mason Greenwood right into a centre ahead. Most of Greenwood’s begins have come from the best and the addition of specialist wingers would free him to play by means of the center extra usually.
