Man United’s seek for a brand new striker continues having missed out on Cody Gakpo however a deal for Atletico Madrid’s Joao Felix may drag on till the tip of the window says switch knowledgeable Ben Jacobs.
Watching Cody Gakpo transfer to Liverpool was a blow for Erik ten Hag because the Man United supervisor needed the Dutch participant. The Manchester membership began a dialogue on the participant’s aspect to get a full buy-in however ultimately, they didn’t make a transfer for the 23-year-old states Ben Jacobs in his unique CaughtOffside column.
That has left United to go looking elsewhere for a brand new frontman and the switch knowledgeable says that the Premier League giants need somebody who can weigh in with objectives and assists, so it’s nearly if they need somebody like that and a conventional quantity 9, or only a conventional quantity 9.
Joao Felix is a participant who matches that profile however a transfer for the Portuguese worldwide might be troublesome as Atletico are prepared to play hardball.
Talking about Felix’s scenario relating to a January transfer away from Atletico Madrid, Ben Jacobs has said: “United have had a dialogue with representatives of Joao Felix, in addition to Arsenal and Chelsea.
“In the mean time, not one of the suitors see worth within the deal until Atletico Madrid’s enormous mortgage price is lowered, and his wages of £5.3million a yr. To date there’s no give from Atletico, which means no openness to a everlasting deal or only a discount in the price of a mortgage. They wish to have their cake and eat it – they need him off their books, his relationship with Diego Simeone has been troublesome and he’s clearly not enjoying to his full potential, however on the identical time, if there’s no choice to purchase it provides them the chance to convey him again and assess his scenario once more sooner or later.”
The switch knowledgeable continues: “The Premier League remains to be Felix’s almost certainly vacation spot, although, and the worth is more likely to come down in direction of the tip of the switch window, for 2 causes. Firstly, even when the wages are nonetheless the identical, January is out of the way in which, so it finally ends up costing rather less if you happen to signal him proper on the finish, quite than on January 1st. The month-to-month value remains to be the identical, it’s only one month much less. One other situation is that Atletico realise they should offload Felix, to get his wages off their books, however they’ll be extra versatile on the mortgage price. We’ll wait and see the way it progresses but it surely wouldn’t shock me if this one drags out a bit till the tip of the window.
“One last factor to say on Felix is which you could’t rule out somebody merely attempting for a everlasting deal. The worth is excessive, although, and that’s not one thing Atletico are providing in the intervening time, however let’s see if golf equipment suppose there’s extra worth in that than a mortgage deal. It’s a really fluid scenario.”
