Manchester United appear to have beaten Real Madrid to a 'generational talent', with a deal agreed
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Manchester United have agreed a deal for a “generational talent” to sign, with a medical set to follow.
The Red Devils are moving swiftly in this transfer window, having assembled their backroom team. Following the appointments of Jason Wilcox, Omar Berrada and Dan Ashworth behind the scenes, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Rene Hake have joined Erik ten Hag's coaching staff.
Joshua Zirkzee has become the first signing of the summer, too. It appears as if the next deal is just around the corner, too, with a fee agreed for a superstar.
Zirkzee has joined United (Image credit: Manchester United/Manchester United via Getty Images)
“[Yoro's] original preference was to join Real Madrid but they have so far shown no indication of paying the price that United and Lille settled on,” Ornstein says. “The 18-year-old France youth international has warmed to the idea of moving to Old Trafford and the latest developments are a major step forward in the situation, but there is still work to be done.”
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This breakthrough follows Le Parisien claiming that United were putting through “a convincing argument” to the teenager ahead of a move. It was previously reported that Yoro would reject United for a move to the Bernabeu.
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Ornstein notes that Yoro is “regarded across the game as being a generational talent,” reaffirming FourFourTwo's assessment from our list of the most exciting teenage talents of last season, where we remarked, “Watching Leny Yoro in youth football was like seeing someone's big brother come to play with the year group below. He's a superstar in the making for a country that already has a quite frankly ridiculous wealth of talents in that position.”
Leny Yoro is set for Manchester United (Image credit: Getty Images)
In FourFourTwo's opinion, this is a huge coup for United. To have convinced the player to join is a show of strength of the project and the progress that Sir Jim Ratcliffe has made since investing in the club.
Yoro is valued at €50 million by Transfermarkt. His contract expires next year.
Mark White is the Digital Content Editor at FourFourTwo. During his time on the brand, Mark has written three cover features on Mikel Arteta, Martin Odegaard and the Invincibles, and has written pieces on subjects ranging from Sir Bobby Robson’s time at Barcelona to the career of Robinho. An encyclopedia of football trivia and collector of shirts, he first joined the team back in 2020 as a staff writer.
