Manchester United appear to be edging toward a 2nd predominant signing of the Jose Mourinho generation with experiences suggesting that a rate for Henrikh Mkhitaryan has been agreed with Borussia Dortmund, at the same time an professional has additionally flown in from Germany.
United and Dortmund have settled on a cost of £26.3m, which is absolutely not up to the £28m bid the old Trafford membership had been rumoured to have made final week.
On Sunday night time, revered German soccer writer Raphael Honigstein revealed that the deal is "close to completed" after a Dortmund professional was once despatched to Manchester.
Mkhitaryan has only one year left on his present contract at Westfalenstadion and in contemporary weeks his agent, the all-robust and outspoken Mino Raiola, has often expressed his patron's want to leave and join 'dream' membership United.
The 27-12 months-ancient Armenian, who is in a position of working in practically every attacking function, scored 18 goals in competitions last season, whilst supplying 15 assists in the Bundesliga on my own. It represented his first-rate person crusade in Germany after beforehand netting 25 times in his final 12 months in Ukraine.
United's industry with Raiola does finish there, however. The Italian-born Dutch agent also famously represents Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who, according to Sky sporting events, is set for a medical subsequent week forward of completing his eagerly predicted free agent transfer to historic Trafford.
It has lengthy been understood that a one-yr contract used to be agreed with the Swedish celebrity previous to his involvement at Euro 2016, regardless of occasional quips from Raiola that nothing was once precise, and he'll formally emerge as a United participant as soon as the final formalities are taken care of.
It is mentioned that United anticipate no problems with the scientific. Ibrahimovic could also be 34 years of age, but he is arguably within the excellent shape of his life and it confirmed in his profession-high intention return in 2015/sixteen - 50 goals in 51 appearances for Paris Saint-Germain.