Manchester United are apparently frontrunners in the race for Inter Milan goalkeeper Andre Onana after Chelsea pulled out of the race.
That’s according to the Evening Standard, with the shot-stopper reportedly costing around £50m. This comes with David de Gea increasingly likely to exit United with renewal talks going cold.
The Spaniard is out of contract next month, which would leave United without a top-level goalkeeper. United could make a move for a replacement this summer and Champions League finalist Onana has been linked.
The Cameroon star played under Ten Hag at Ajax prior to his exit last year. Any move for a new goalkeeper is reportedly unlikely to happen before De Gea’s future is decided.
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This also means Dean Henderson’s permanent move to Nottingham Forest is on pause, Football Insider reports. The 26-year-old looks likely to end up at the City Ground but a deal is being delayed because of De Gea’s situation.
Henderson spent last season on loan at Forest, albeit spent the second half of the campaign on the sidelines after sustaining a thigh tear which required surgery. His United contract doesn't expire until 2025 and so Forest are set to pay somewhere between £25m and £30m for the England international.
Henderson is unlikely to stay on at United after blasting the club for their “criminal” treatment of him over the past few years.
Upon his loan switch, he said: “The conversation I had coming out of the Euros (in 2021) squad was ‘you’re coming back here to be the number one’.
“I got Covid-19, came back, so I should have still been the number one but then nobody followed through with what they had told me.
“It was frustrating, because I turned down so many good loans last summer for that reason, and they would not let me go. To sit there for 12 months, it is criminal really, at my age, I was fuming.
“I told the hierarchy that I need to be playing football and to let me go, and I was almost gone before the manager (Erik ten Hag) came through the door. I have not spoken to him since.”
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