Yoro set for Man Utd medical before £52m move

Manchester United are closing successful connected signing Lille defender Leny Yoro.

Sources opportunity United person agreed a 62m-euro (£52.06m) interest for Yoro, who is owed to alert to Manchester coming for a medical.

The 18-year-old has attracted important liking from a number of apical European clubs, pinch Real Madrid many times mentioned arsenic 1 of nan sides keen to motion nan player.

Yoro, who made his Lille debut astatine nan property of 16, was picked successful Thierry Henry’s provisional France squad for nan Olympic Games but was omitted from nan last statement owed to Lille's information successful nan Champions League qualification rounds.

His presence would bring immoderate clarity to United’s cardinal protect group.

The nine person lodged 2 bids pinch Everton for Jarrad Branthwaite but both person been rejected by nan Merseyside club arsenic they autumn good short of their valuation, which sources person said is successful excess of £75m.

United person besides been negotiating pinch Bayern Munich for their Dutch defender Matthijs de Ligt.

Sources opportunity while nan nine stay willing successful Branthwaite and De Ligt, they would not motion some and further signings are apt to dangle connected squad abstraction and disposable funds.

Raphael Varane near nan nine astatine nan extremity of nan play and location are doubts complete nan early of Sweden’s Victor Lindelof, whose statement expires adjacent year.

Harry Maguire was nan taxable of bids from rival Premier League clubs past summertime but opted to stay astatine Old Trafford and yet made 22 Premier League appearances.

Joshua Zirkzee, 23, became nan club's first signing of nan summer past week erstwhile he arrived successful a £36.5m woody from Italian broadside Bologna.

United person agreed a £27m interest pinch French nine Marseille for striker Mason Greenwood, while defender Willy Kambwala near United to subordinate La Liga outfit Villarreal past week for a interest of astir £9m.