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Manchester United are able to “rival” Arsenal and Liverpool within the hunt for Yankuba Minteh, in accordance with studies.
Minteh, 20, has loved a breakout season for Brighton & Hove Albion after a £30 million transfer from Newcastle United final summer season. Executives at St James’ Park didn’t wish to promote the Gambian winger as they believed in his potential to grow to be top-of-the-line forwards within the Premier League.
However the acute stress of PSR pressured Newcastle to promote the proficient children with Brighton – a membership famed for his or her astute recruitment – comfortable to revenue. Eddie Howe later confirmed the Magpies “didn’t wish to promote” the winger.
Minteh has demonstrated why Newcastle rued his sale after scoring seven targets with 5 assists in 37 appearances for the Seagulls this 12 months. His work-rate has additionally been glorious with good defensive instincts – rating within the 96th percentile for tackles and 97th for clearances amongst wingers in Europe – and the flexibility to play on both wing.
In January, Minteh ran riot at Previous Trafford as he scored one and and assisted one other to assist Brighton beat Ruben Amorim’s aspect 3-1 in a complete victory.
These kind of performances have put quite a few England’s prime golf equipment on red-alert this summer season with a report relayed by Caught Offside revealing Minteh is “on the listing of Man Utd as they appear to strengthen their assault this summer season.”
However the Crimson Devils are joined by Liverpool and Arsenal within the hunt for the 20-year-old winger with each rivals in a position to provide Champions League soccer subsequent season.
Nonetheless, the queue on the right-wing – Minteh’s favoured place – is much harder to leap at Anfield or the Emirates with the league’s two standout performers in Mohammed Salah and Bukayo Saka standing within the Gambian worldwide’s manner ought to he make these switches.
At Previous Trafford, it might be a barely totally different proposition.
Amorim’s 3-4-2-1 system doesn’t utilise a conventional ‘right-winger’. However the Portuguese coach has persistently demonstrated a choice for attacking wingers within the wing-back position, on at the very least one aspect.
At Sporting, Amorim fast-tracked Geovany Quenda’s ascension into the first-team – a left-footed right-winger who had sometimes performed a lot additional ahead within the Lisbon crew’s academy. However Amorim noticed his potential without any consideration wing-back and he flourished within the position.
Minteh shares similarities with Quenda by way of his profile and it could possibly be this proper wing-back place Amorim is envisioning for the Brighton starlet. The truth that Minteh would additionally have the ability to play within the entrance three, in addition to on the left-hand aspect of the pitch, would solely strengthen this curiosity.
Subsequently, whereas a transfer to Arsenal or Liverpool would provide Minteh the prospect of competing in Europe’s elite competitors in addition to more than likely difficult for the Premier League title, he could be doing so from the bench.
For United, he would stroll into the aspect as a result of paucity of viable choices at proper wing-back with neither Diogo Dalot nor Noussair Mazraoui providing the attacking menace Amorim requires for his system to operate.
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