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Manchester United target players from West Ham past and present in £47.7m double swoop

Issa Diop celebrates with Sebastien Haller

Manchester United have found a couple of budget options for their summer rebuild, with current and former West Ham players set to be targeted.

 

SEBASTIEN GO
There has been a notable increase in entry-level arithmetic when it comes to the reporting of Manchester United’s transfer plans. Those in the know have finally scrolled far enough down the Ajax squad to realise Erik ten Hag might like to bring Sebastien Haller back to the Premier League with him.

Jurrien Timber, Noussair Mazraoui and Antony have all already been linked with moves to Old Trafford, and not for the first time this season Haller has made it four. The Sun say ‘it looks as though’ the 27-year-old forward ‘could be following in the same direction’ as his current manager.

He is framed as an affordable alternative to nine-figure targets such as Harry Kane and Darwin Nunez. The two years remaining on his Ajax contract give Haller a supposed valuation of £35m, which would be phenomenal for a forward with 33 goals and nine assists in 39 games this season, albeit with the sizeable caveat of that West Ham stuff.

Not sure why Ajax would sell him back to a Premier League side for less than the Hammers originally paid, mind.

Haller shows Premier League failure is not a career dead end

 

ISSA TRAP
Not content with signing a player who struggled at the London Stadium, Manchester United will also keep an eye on one who has proved useful for David Moyes this season. Issa Diop is no Craig Dawson but has been important for a club that appears to have some sort of centre-half curse currently.

Diop has been linked with a move to Old Trafford before – he was once thrust into the middle of a feud between Paul Scholes and Jose Mourinho – and it seems that interest never really faded. But there could be a fight for the Frenchman.

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