Manchester United are reported to have reached an settlement to signal teenage midfielder Sekou Kone as a part of the membership’s “long-term plans”.
United have moved with a transparent technique within the switch market this summer season, touchdown Joshua Zirkzee, Matthijs de Ligt and Noussair Mazraoui to spice up first-team depth and competitors.
18-year-old Leny Yoro has additionally been recruited at important price, adequate to begin instantly (when match), however equally younger sufficient to offer a decade or extra to United. Prolific 16-year-old Chido Obi Martin has been poached from Arsenal’s academy for his potential to turn out to be a famous person and Kone, 18, now seems to be as if he’ll arrive in Manchester after being scouted in his native Mali.
Fabrizio Romano stories that United have overwhelmed just a few different sides to Kone, having been recognized by “a number of golf equipment” as a expertise value chasing.
Kone was a part of the massively spectacular Mali squad that completed third finally 12 months’s Beneath-17 World Cup, thumping Canada, Mexico and Argentina alongside the way in which.
The seize of Kone from Guidars FC, a membership in Mali with a monitor file of creating gamers who then head to Europe, is indicative of the affect of Christopher Vivell at United.
The previous Chelsea technical director was added to the new-look sporting division on a short-term foundation this summer season to help with recruitment. Vivell was previously head of scouting after which head of recruitment at Pink Bull Salzburg, earlier than becoming a member of RB Leipzig as technical director.
Guidars is the precise kind of membership, in soccer’s lesser recognized markets, that Salzburg have usually finished enterprise with. The Austrian facet have made a behavior of unearthing uncooked expertise, notably from Africa, and Moussa Yeo and Dorgeles Nene are two present Salzburg gamers signed from Guidars.
In going straight to the supply themselves, United seem to successfully chopping out the center man, with golf equipment like Salzburg and Leipzig normally discovering the expertise and promoting it on at sizeable revenue.
