O Manchester United continues with an uncertainty about who will be the team’s goalkeeper next season. This is because the holder of the position since 2011/12, David De Gea, has a contract only until June 30 of this year and has not yet reached an agreement for the renewal of the bond with the club.
With that, the Red Devils start to pay attention to the market in this transfer window to buy a new archer. According to the English press, one of the names that interest the English team is the Portuguese Diogo Costa, from Porto.
In addition to him, United is monitoring the situations of Spaniard David Raya, from Brentford, and Cameroonian André Onana, Champions League runner-up with Internazionale. Including, the African goalkeeper is appointed as the main target of the board of the Manchester team.
Formed in Porto’s youth categories, Diogo Costa accumulated passages through the B team and in the reserve bench of the main squad until he took over the title in the 2021/22 season. Since then, there have been 84 matches and one assist distributed.
In 2022/23, in fact, it was when the goalkeeper also appeared among the starting eleven of the Portuguese national team, overcoming the competition of José Sá, from Wolverhampton, and veteran Rui Patrício, from Roma. Thus, Diogo Costa was in the starting line-up in all five games of the team in the World Cup in Qatar.
At the age of 23, the archer has a valid contract with the Portuguese club until June 2027 and, according to the Lusitanian newspaper And she was, has a release clause of 75 million euros (about R$ 392 million). He has also been speculated at Bayern Munich.
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Source: Gazetaesportiva
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