Samu Aghehowa celebrates along with his Porto teammates (Picture by Paolo Bruno/Getty Photographs)
Manchester United are preserving a detailed eye on Porto striker Samu Aghehowa forward of this summer time’s switch window, CaughtOffside understands.
The proficient 20-year-old has been in excellent kind for Porto this season, contributing a complete of 20 objectives and three assists in all competitions to this point.
Aghehowa was notably near becoming a member of Chelsea final summer time, however ended up making a shock transfer to Porto as an alternative.
It’s not straightforward to see why Chelsea have been eager on Aghehowa, who stays firmly on the radar of a number of high golf equipment.
Sources with a detailed understanding of the scenario have knowledgeable CaughtOffside that Man Utd are joined by Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Tottenham and West Ham United in monitoring Aghehowa.
Ruben Amorim pushing for Samu Aghehowa switch
It’s understood that Ruben Amorim is an enormous fan of Aghehowa and is driving the Pink Devils’ curiosity within the Spaniard, although it stays to be seen if he’ll be realistically reasonably priced for them.
United’s funds aren’t the very best for the time being, so that may restrict what they’ll do within the switch market, with participant gross sales prone to be required earlier than any main offers for gamers coming in.
Barcelona additionally actually like Aghehowa, with Lamine Yamal understood to be personally pushing for the Catalan giants to herald his worldwide teammate.
Barca don’t essentially want a brand new centre-forward that urgently, however Aghehowa seems like he might be a great long-term alternative for the ageing Robert Lewandowski.
Bayern, Spurs and West Ham are additionally prepared to maneuver for brand spanking new strikers this summer time, and are all contemplating Aghehowa as an choice.
Porto don’t wish to promote the younger ahead, nevertheless, so it might require triggering his €100m launch clause to get a deal achieved.
United have additionally been linked with Viktor Gyokeres as a goal up entrance, although Duncan Castles instructed The Transfers Podcast that the Sporting Lisbon striker has rejected a transfer to Outdated Trafford.
MUFC might do nicely to land Aghehowa, and one imagines they’ll proceed to take a look at him and different potential attacking targets forward of the summer time.
