Laurent Blanc could get the Manchester United job over Jose Mourinho and the Red Devils are competing with Arsenal and Chelsea for Mats Hummels and Antoine Griezmann, while a Chelsea youth player is demanding £50k a week after just 17 minutes of first-team action. It’s the top stories from Tuesday’s papers...
Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal and assistant manager Ryan Giggs
Paper Round’s view: It's
anybody's guess what's going on at Manchester United. One minute it
appears that the Jose Mourinho deal is all wrapped up, the next it looks
like Van Gaal could even stay, and now we have a new name in the mix.
World Cup-winner Blanc was slightly over the hill by the time he arrived
at Old Trafford in his playing career, but he's approaching his prime
as a manager after developing impressively during his three and a bit
years at PSG. The Giggs factor was always likely to be a stumbling block
in any move for Mourinho, while fan patience does seem to be running
out for Van Gaal (despite an upturn in form and his introduction of a
number of young players), so this story could actually make sense... but
more likely it is simply adding two and two together and making five.
Arsenal and Man United on red alert over Hummels
Borussia Dortmund are open to allowing centre-back Mats Hummels to leave the club in the summer - reports The Express. The Germany
international has long been linked with a move to the Premier League
and Dortmund chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke has been quoted as
saying that to "forbid Hummels to leave would be small-minded". Arsenal
and Manchester United have both been heavily linked with a move for the
27-year-old defender.
Paper Round’s view: The
Dortmund chief might as well have just said "stump up the cash and you
can have him". Hummels isn't getting much younger and in another year or
two's time he won't be able to attract the sort of mega-money transfer
fee that he will demand currently, so it would make sense if his club
were feeling out their options. The Bundesliga has profited enormously
from the Premier League's influx of television money over the last
couple of years, with Germany's clubs negotiating some huge fees for a
number of want-away players, and it would be no big surprise if Hummels
was to move to England.
He would fit in nicely at both United and Arsenal, but if that contest
turns into a bidding war then there's only likely to be one winner.
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