Manchester United are chasing attacking signings this summer as Ruben Amorim seeks to bring more goals to Old Trafford.
Manchester United lost 1-0 to Wolverhampton Wanderers at Old Trafford on Sunday afternoon, falling to yet another Premier League defeat.
United have struggled to score goals all season and have now found the net just once in the last four Premier League games.
This simply cannot continue moving forward and United must find attacking signings this summer.
Reports suggest that United want both Matheus Cunha and Liam Delap, with the intention of paying their respective release clauses at Wolverhampton Wanderers and Ipswich Town.
That double deal would cost up to £100million, but United continue to be linked with more attacking additions this summer.
Manchester United confident on Victor Osimhen
The Mirror now claim that United are confident of securing a deal for Napoli striker Victor Osimhen.
It’s stated that United are ‘pushing ahead’ with a potential move to sign Osimhen for £40million.
This report claims that Osimhen is Amorim’s top target – despite suggestions that Delap is his number one priority in attack.
Osimhen is set to enter the final year of his contract, leaving United to believe that he can be signed for just £40million.
Osimhen claims he will settle his future soon, with United seemingly hoping that he will head to Manchester.
The Nigerian is on loan at Galatasaray this season having fallen out with Napoli last summer, but he has continued to score with 29 goals in 34 games.
Intriguingly, the Daily Mail suggest that United could be tempted to send Rasmus Hojlund to Napoli as part of the deal.
Hojlund showed promise in Serie A with Atalanta but has struggled as the leading man in United’s attack this season.
Hojlund has suitors in Italy and Napoli may well be one of them, with United potentially open to letting him leave in order to sign Osimhen.
Signing Osimhen and Delap could be the dream for United
We would be pretty excited to see Osimhen in a United shirt.
The Hojlund move was gamble, based almost entirely on his potential rather than his immediate quality.
Signing Delap would be somewhat similar, as the step up from Ipswich to United is a huge one in terms of expectations.
Osimhen would be an entirely different kind of signing; a proven goalscorer who has shown himself to be a clinical finisher.
18 goals in 38 at Lille, 76 goals in 133 at Napoli, now 29 goals in 34 for Galatasaray; Osimhen lives for scoring goals and would almost certainly offer more of a goal threat than Hojlund.
Still only 26, Osimhen is proven but still has some room to kick on to another level in the coming years.
We would really love to see Osimhen and Delap sign, allowing Amorim to interchange his strikers with the luxury of having a proven goalscorer and a young forward to develop.
Affording both strikers won’t be easy, though, and would almost certainly need Hojlund to move on – and maybe even Champions League football to be secured.
Selling the likes of Marcus Rashford and Antony would help, with United potentially ready to commit a large chunk of the summer budget on attacking reinforcements.
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