Man Utd are interested in bringing Inter Milan defender Alessandro Bastoni to the Premier League this summer, according to reports.
Eric Bailly has been placed on a list of players who can leave Old Trafford this summer with the Red Devils hopeful they can bring in another centre-back to compete with Harry Maguire, Raphael Varane and Victor Lindelof next season.
New Man Utd boss Erik ten Hag has reportedly identified the position as a key area that needs improvement after the Red Devils finished sixth in the Premier League table.
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Only seven clubs in the Premier League conceded more than Man Utd this season as they allowed the opposition to score 57 times in 38 matches, finishing the season on a zero goal difference.
And now Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport (via Sport Witness) insist that Man Utd are targeting Inter Milan defender Bastoni with the Serie A club forced to sell one of their star players to balance the books.
The report claims that ‘everything will be done to avoid the sale of Lautaro Martinez’ which means ‘in terms of age, role and market value, all the clues lead to Alessandro Bastoni’.
They draw the conclusion that ‘today, the most credible hypothesis for Bastoni remains the other team from Manchester, Ten Hag’s United’ despite Man City and Tottenham being heavily linked with the centre-back.
There has been speculation that Ten Hag’s budget at Man Utd this summer will be between £100m and £150m after Ralf Rangnick’s claims that there could be as many as ten new arrivals were dismissed.
And Bastoni would cost United a large chunk of that with with Gazzetta dello Sport claiming Inter ‘takes at least €60m’ for the defender, who Ten Hag likes ‘a lot’.
Man Utd, who ‘have no problem investing heavily in defenders’, with Maguire arriving from Leicester City for £80m in 2019 and they are now ‘studying the…
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