{"id":311,"date":"2018-02-05T13:07:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T12:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/?p=311"},"modified":"2018-02-05T13:08:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T12:08:02","slug":"football-transfer-rumours-vidal-and-kluivert-to-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Football transfer rumours: Vidal and Kluivert to Manchester United?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop-cap\"><span class=\"drop-cap__inner\">P<\/span><\/span>erhaps having twigged that Nemanja Matic\u2019s legs move at about half the speed he thought they did, Jos\u00e9 Mourinho has made signing an energetic midfielder who can disguise Paul Pogba\u2019s contempt for defensive midfield play a priority. And the name he has scrawled on a piece of paper and shoved into Ed Woodward\u2019s top pocket is\u00a0<strong>Arturo Vidal<\/strong>. The Bayern Munich box-to-box schemer would have a Chilean best mate waiting for him at Old Trafford in the form of Alexis S\u00e1nchez. He\u2019d also have only a year left on his contract so wouldn\u2019t cost the price of the moon on a stick either. Real Madrid\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Mateo Kovacic<\/strong>\u00a0is still a target too but they will face a battle with Spurs for his signature.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 20 years after Patrick Kluivert made Alex Ferguson\u2019s lid rattle by snubbing the chance to move to Old Trafford, the Dutch legend\u2019s son,\u00a0<strong>Justin Kluivert<\/strong>, looks like he will do what his dad did not, and join\u00a0<strong>Manchester United<\/strong>. It says here that the club are in advanced talks to sign the 18-year-old from Ajax for around \u00a310m. Renowned nurturer of youth Mourinho is quite a fan. And reports here suggest Marcus Rashford would be so delighted at Kluivert\u2019s arrival he would instruct his people to find him another club.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-1 | 1\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-feature--item rich-link--pillar-sport\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__container\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__read-more\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__read-more-text\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Liverpool believe they have found the pocket-sized genius throbbing with potential and creative juices who can truly succeed Philippe Coutinho. His name\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Jack Wilshere<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If\u00a0<strong>Riyad Mahrez<\/strong>\u00a0is ever located then\u00a0<strong>Arsenal<\/strong>\u00a0would like to be made aware of his whereabouts. Since the Leicester player\u2019s collapsed move to\u00a0<strong>Manchester City<\/strong>\u00a0on deadline day, other clubs have come sniffing around, chief among them the Gunners, who are feeling cocksure about their attacking prowess after giving Everton a good hiding at the weekend. Apparently, Ars\u00e8ne Wenger is regularly requesting updates on the playmaker and, like a distant nephew or something, the Algerian is never far from his thoughts. But City are still in the box seat while\u00a0<strong>Liverpool<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Chelsea<\/strong>\u00a0are also somewhere near the front of a queue of potential suitors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Napoli<\/strong>\u00a0are watching\u00a0<strong>Mauro Icardi<\/strong>\u00a0very carefully and would improve on a \u00a350m offer for the 24-year-old in order to selflessly give the Inter striker the chance to stay in Serie A rather than acclimatise to another league. And the club\u2019s president, Aurelio de Laurentiis, has been singing sweetly. \u201cIcardi will score 40 a season here under Sarri and can become like Cristiano Ronaldo,\u201d he cooed. \u201cI tried to negotiate signing him with his wife, who is an attractive and charming woman. I offered \u20ac55m. He is a champion. Will they sell to Napoli? Why not? Never say never \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Napoli\u2019s priority next season may be appointing a new manager, though. The word is that Roman Abramovich is already lining up\u00a0<strong>Maurizio\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Sarri<\/strong>\u00a0as Antonio Conte\u2019s replacement and is willing to pay the chain-smoking Neapolitan\u2019s \u00a37m release clause to bring him to\u00a0<strong>Chelsea<\/strong>. Maybe they could do a swap. Meanwhile, Chelsea\u2019s recruitment department appears to be valiantly persisting with its maverick tactic of targeting West Ham second-stringers. If Thibaut Courtois decides to bust a move to Real Madrid then Chelsea will consider\u00a0<strong>Joe Hart<\/strong>\u00a0as his replacement. Yup.<\/p>\n<p>And in vastly contrasting former Everton manager news,\u00a0<strong>Ronald Koeman<\/strong>\u00a0is set to be made Holland boss and\u00a0<strong>David Unsworth<\/strong>\u00a0is in line for the Oxford United job, having been given permission by the Toffees to leave his Under-23 role.<\/p>\n<p>Source https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2018\/feb\/05\/football-transfer-rumours-vidal-and-kluivert-to-manchester-united<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps having twigged that Nemanja Matic\u2019s legs move at about half the speed he thought they did, Jos\u00e9 Mourinho has made signing an energetic midfielder who can disguise Paul Pogba\u2019s contempt for defensive midfield play a priority. And the name he has scrawled on a piece of paper and shoved into Ed Woodward\u2019s top pocket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}