{"id":42168,"date":"2022-06-08T17:04:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T17:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/man-united-prepared-to-rival-liverpool-for-darwin-nunez\/"},"modified":"2022-06-08T17:04:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T17:04:55","slug":"man-united-prepared-to-rival-liverpool-for-darwin-nunez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/man-united-prepared-to-rival-liverpool-for-darwin-nunez\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United prepared to rival Liverpool for Darwin Nunez"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp\" data-behavior=\"date_time\" data-date=\"2022-06-08T13:25:00Z\"><span class=\"time\" data-dateformat=\"time1\" data-showtimezone=\"true\">9:25 AM ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Rob Dawson<span>Correspondent <\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Manchester United are prepared to rival Liverpool for the signing of Benfica striker Darwin Nunez, sources have told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>United are looking for a young forward this summer and 22-year-old Nunez is high up on their list of players.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool have also registered their interest and sources have told ESPN that United would not be put off even if it meant going head-to-head with the Anfield side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; UEFA Nations League on ESPN networks: Stream LIVE games, replays (US only)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nunez, according to sources, is keen for regular Champions League football which would put Liverpool ahead in the race but United believe there is a chance he could be convinced to move to Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>Sources have told ESPN that an issue for both United and Liverpool is Benfica&#8217;s valuation.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese side initially quoted more than \u00a3 110 million for the Uruguay international although there is a feeling any bid over \u00a3 80m would be taken seriously given Nunez, who has a contract until 2025, is keen on a move.<\/p>\n<p>Sources have told ESPN that a number of Spanish clubs are also monitoring the situation.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2022%2F0608%2Fr1022695_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2022%2F0608%2Fr1022695_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2022%2F0608%2Fr1022695_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2022%2F0608%2Fr1022695_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Manchester United are prepared to rival Liverpool for Darwin Nunez. <cite>Photo by Valter Gouveia \/ NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Liverpool, according to sources, have not yet made a bid for Nunez, who scored 34 goals in 41 games last season, and would be reluctant to get into a bidding war with United, even if Sadio Mane seals a move to Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<p>Sources have told ESPN that United have prioritized strengthening their forward line and midfield during the summer window, ahead of bringing in reinforcements in defense.<\/p>\n<p>They are also looking at Christopher Nkunku at RB Leipzig.<\/p>\n<p>United have what is being described as a &#8220;sizeable&#8221; budget to work with this summer but the club have distanced themselves from Ralf Rangnick&#8217;s suggestion while he was interim boss that they could sign 10 players ahead of the new season.<\/p>\n<p>Erik ten Hag is keen to bring in new faces but has also been told he will have to get more out of the players already in the squad.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman is on holiday but will return to work before the first squad members return to preseason training on June 27.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9:25 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United are prepared to rival Liverpool for the signing of Benfica striker Darwin Nunez, sources have told ESPN. United are looking for a young forward this summer and 22-year-old Nunez is high up on their list of players. Liverpool have also registered their interest and sources have told ESPN &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/man-united-prepared-to-rival-liverpool-for-darwin-nunez\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man United prepared to rival Liverpool for Darwin Nunez<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[18969,18970,4161,302,4160,304,4159],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2022\/0608\/r1022695_1296x729_16-9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}