Ineos man’s growing influence at the club clear with Man Utd’s unexpected transfer interest in Nene Dorgeles

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Manchester United’s January transfer business is yet to kick into gear with half the month gone but the club is clearly working hard behind the scenes.

From potential outgoings for Marcus Rashford and Casemiro to murmurs of a move for Randal Kolo Muani, United have been ever-present in transfer news.

The coverage around Man Utd transfer news is so widespread that it very rarely happens that a player gets linked to the club truly out of the blue and nobody knows about it.

That’s exactly what happened when Man Utd’s interest in Nene Dorgeles was reported recently, with the club monitoring a package for the Malian international.

That deal has one man’s fingerprints all over it, his influence at Old Trafford growing.

Nene Dorgeles interest hints at Man Utd’s executive structure

Ever since Dan Ashworth left the club out of nowhere, the executive structure at Manchester United has been sent into a tailspin.

Jason Wilcox has stepped up but there has been uncertainty over who takes Ashworth’s place, if there is one at all.

However, transfer interest in Nene Dorgeles hints that another man entirely, Christopher Vivell, is growing in influence at Old Trafford because the circumstances around the deal can’t be a coincidence.

Vivell has a long and illustrious history of setting up and maximising the resources from his time with the Red Bull network and Dorgeles interest comes straight from that playbook.

The Malian winger plays for RB Salzburg and nobody would know about his qualities and potential more than Vivell, who has his finger on the pulse of the RB network.

At 22, he is exactly the sort of under-the-radar signing that the RB network makes for a sister club, ensuring a pathway through to RB Leipzig eventually.

Now, United are disrupting that by trying to pluck a talent straight from its source instead of paying millions more when they reach public notoriety.

Christopher Vivell matching Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s ambition

Sir Jim Ratcliffe is not a very popular figure at Old Trafford right now due to Ineos’ constant unpopular decisions for saving the financial bottom line.

However, interest in Dorgeles, coupled with the move for Diego Leon shows his actions are matching his words in the perfect way.

He said earlier that there’s no glory in trying to sign a player like Kylian Mbappe when he’s already the toast of the world. The real scouting talent lies in discovering a player like that and pouncing before anyone else.

With the likes of Leon and Dorgeles, his ambitions of being active in the market instead of reactive are being realised and Man Utd will be much better off for it.