'Go and get him' - Manchester United urged to sign Premier League-proven midfielder who plays 'like Roy Keane'
Man Utd plan to overhaul their midfield next year and could be tempted to make a January move.
Manchester United are in the market for at least two midfield signings next year as Ruben Amorim looks to overhaul the problem position.
United currently only have four senior central midfielders, and there are doubts over all of them. Casemiro is expected to leave when his contract expires at the end of the season, and Kobbie Mainoo is unhappy with his current lack of playing time. There is continued transfer interest in Bruno Fernandes, while Manuel Ugarte has struggled since he joined a year ago.
There is an appreciation that top targets will not be available until the end of the season, and United do not plan to sign someone just for the sake of it during the January transfer window. The only way that will change is if there are any injuries to those already at the club, or if an unmissable market opportunity should arise. There might be one on the horizon.
United urged to sign Conor Gallagher
Manchester United enquired over a potential loan move for Conor Gallagher in the summer window, but Atletico Madrid made it clear he could only leave on a permanent transfer. The 25-year-old could be on the move in January and former United defender Paul Parker believes it would be an opportunity they can't afford to miss.
"What you do is you go out and you go and ask if you can get Connor Gallagher, a person with just as much energy, someone who's better with the ball, someone who's proven in the Premier League, had a great time at Palace, has proven himself," Parker, speaking exclusively to Manchester World via the home of football odds said.
"Chelsea fans didn't want to see him go. He's gone to Atletico Madrid, he's done well there, he's definitely now more experienced, he's learnt a bit more playing for a coach like Simeone on his defensive work but he can't get in a team anymore as he did before. So United need to go out and get him on loan. I think that would be a really good signing for us."
When further pushed on a potential deal for the former Chelsea man, he added: "That's what you'd go and do at this moment in time, get Gallagher on loan. Go and get him on loan, do something to maybe take him as a permanent signing, but you'd go and get him on loan for now, and one thing that won't be lacking with him, is a work ethic.
"People say, but they've got Mason Mount. Mason Mount isn't an athlete like him. Mason Mount is technically okay, but he can't run away from people like Connor does, and Connor Gallagher is the kind of person that people would see the way he wants to play. They would see a Roy Keane, a Paul Ince or even a Brian Robson. In the sense of he would cover one box to the other at the click of a finger."
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