DBasia.news – Thanks to the success of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer raising Manchester United’s performance, several mainstay players whose contracts will end at the end of this season, sign a new contract.
Luke Shaw, Ashley Young, Chris Smalling, Phil Jones, Scott McTominay and lastly Anthony Martial chose to extend his contract, but on the other hand, there were also players whose new contract talks were deadlocked, namely Juan Mata, David de Gea, and Antonio Valencia. The last name can even be obtained for free at the end of the 2018/19 season.
Anticipating Valencia’s departure, now according to the Mirror report, United already has a plan to bring in a successor, namely Joao Cancelo, who is currently working in Italy with Juventus.
It seems not strange if the Red Devils want to bring Cancelo to become a successor of Valencia, because the Portuguese player is also able to perform consistently throughout the 2018/19 season. He has also appeared in 22 matches and has always been the main choice for Massimiliano Allegri.
Besides wanting to make Cancelo a successor of Valencia, the club’s interest in this 24-year-old player was because they were also not too sure about the performance shown by Diogo Dalot. Not only that, the age of another Valencia teammate, Ashley Young has also turned 33 years old.
But it seems that United’s desire to immediately get Cancelo will not run easily, besides Juventus who certainly do not want to lose one of its important players, Cancelo is also still bound by a contract in Turin until the year 2023.
Joao Cancelo is not the only player on the club shopping list that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is training in the summer of 2019, besides himself, Crystal Palace’s tough defender Aaron Wan-Bissaka is also said to be the club’s main target for 20 Premier League titles that.