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Football Insider claim ‘both Ousmane Diomande and Gonzalo Inacio will form part of the shortlist for United’.
It’s further claimed that ‘Amorim will assess the squad and the current crop of defensive options when he arrives in Manchester after completing his duties with Sporting’ but the report will concern current centre-back pairing Lisandro Martinez and Matthijs de Ligt.
Amorim will have Harry Maguire, Johnny Evans and Victor Lindelof as backups, while Leny Yoro will presumably be pushing for a starting spot once fit.
Despite the inevitable links with Sporting players and an apparent desire of Amorim to bring them with him to Old Trafford, the Portuguese boss insisted in a press conference that he would not be raiding his current club in January.
“I will not take any of Sporting’s players in January. But that’s another story,” he said.
On Gyokeres he added: “Gyokeres costs £100m. It’s very complicated.”
Amorim may well want to sign some Sporting players but former Everton chairman Keith Wyness insists that United will be “very concerned” about that given the way in which they’ve been burnt by landing so many players that played under Erik ten Hag at Ajax.
Wyness said: “They’ll be very concerned about bringing Amorim’s favourites in.
“This is where Ashworth and Jason Wilcox have got to earn their money. They’ve got to put in place the cohesive style of Man United behind the scenes.