Man Utd are now prepared to sell Alejandro Garnacho in the January transfer window with Tottenham entering the race to sign the Argentinian, according to reports.

The Red Devils have had a miserable season with the board sacking Erik ten Hag at the end of October before hiring Ruben Amorim to take the club forward.

After a poor start, Amorim has made some progress over the last few weeks with good performances against Liverpool and Arsenal, before beating Southampton 3-1 at Old Trafford in midweek.

Amorim is obviously still lacking a number of players to turn Man Utd into a team that can be successful in the Premier League with the Red Devils currently 13th in the Premier League ahead of their clash against Brighton on Sunday.

That could mean having to sell some players in order to raise funds before they can then make signing of their own, with Garnacho one player who is attracting a lot of interest from elsewhere.

Garnacho has been the subject of two bids from Serie A side Napoli with the Italians reportedly ‘increasing their offer’ to €55m over the weekend for the Man Utd winger.

That report indicated that Man Utd are still holding out for €70m if they sell in January with Garnacho apparently reaching a ‘verbal agreement’ over a five-year contract with Napoli.

And now Caught Offside claim that Man Utd are now ‘ready to consider letting Alejandro Garnacho leave if they receive a good enough offer this January’.

As well as Napoli, the report adds that ‘sources have also informed CaughtOffside that Tottenham have joined the race for Garnacho, having received information on his situation’.

The report adds:

‘One imagines Man Utd would rather sell abroad than to a Premier League rival, but Spurs will no doubt hope they can emerge as serious contenders for the talented 20-year-old.

‘Garnacho has shown great potential during his time at United, even if he’s seemingly no longer looking like being as much of an important player under new manager Ruben Amorim.’

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Napoli sporting director Giovanni Manna suggested on Saturday that the Italian club are interested in doing a deal for the Man Utd winger.

When asked directly about a potential move for Garnacho, Manna said: “We are making some assessments, he is an important player, but he is not ours.

“We must not get carried away even if we know that an important player has left, a top player as the manager defined him and therefore the expectations are high. But we will do something on Napoli’s terms.”

On Napoli’s decision to sell Khvicha Kvaratskhelia to Paris Saint-Germain, Manna added: “The team is reacting well, already last week the player did not want to come to the match and had excluded himself. The coach is able to unite the group and they already knew about the situation.

“You have to ask him what he has to tell us. I can say that the player has asked to be sold.

“We were working on the renewal which was not easy, but it was well underway. His salary requirements were clearly not at our level and did not match.

“The choice was forced, we wish him the best, he is the past even if he wrote great pages for Napoli.”

Transfer expert Fabrizio Romano has revealed that La Liga side Real Betis are ‘closing in’ on an agreement to sign Man Utd winger Antony on loan for the rest of the season.

The Red Devils, who face Brighton in the Premier League on Sunday, have been having a terrible season with Ruben Amorim’s side currently 13th in the the table.

Antony, who signed from Ajax for £85m in 2022, has played 401 minutes in all competitions this season over 13 appearances, three of which have been in the starting XI.

His time in the team has slightly improved since the arrival of Amorim as manager but it’s understood that the new Man Utd head coach is unlikely to stand in the way of his exit from Old Trafford.

Antony somehow missed a tap-in as Man Utd beat Southampton, who are bottom of the Premier League, 3-1 in midweek with Amad Diallo scoring a hat-trick towards the end of the match to save Amorim’s blushes.

And now it looks like Brazil international Antony is on his way out of Old Trafford in the January transfer window with transfer expert Romano confirming a loan until the end of the season has almost been agreed with Real Betis.

Romano wrote on X: ‘Real Betis are closing in on Antony deal with Man United! Final details of the agreement being discussed, loan move until June with NO option clause currently included. Antony has opened doors to the move, Man United will also cover part of the salary.’

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Amorim will be hoping that Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe will help him improve the squad before the January window shuts with outgoings starting to take shape.

When asked whether he had a chance to speak to Ratcliffe, who was attending the Southampton match, Amorim replied at a press conference: “Yes. I had five minutes with him, to talk about different things, about the game.

“It was not good at the game, but, in the end, the result helped the conversation. So we continued with our job, it’s a really difficult moment, but today was more important: the win. I know the fans want to see so much better football than this.

“I want to see so much better football than this, but we need time. Like I said in the first days here, to win time, we need to win games. We did that today, not in a good fashion, but we managed to win and we’re going to prepare for the next game.”

It was That Man Again who saved Manchester United’s blushes against Southampton on Thursday. Amad Diallo is the shining light in a chasm of darkness at Old Trafford that has – if anything – become more impenetrable since Ruben Amorim took charge of the club.

Amid reports that no Red Devil is now ‘untouchable’ with Alejandro Garnacho deemed too ‘scruffy’ for United but not for Napoli, as Chelsea keep tabs of negotiations over Kobbie Mainoo’s extension, Diallo has emerged as the shiny new youngster that’s being built up as the club’s saviour, only to come crashing back down to earth when he gets a case of the Manchester Uniteds like the multiple Messiahs who have risen before an inevitable fall in the last decade or so.

We’ve come up with 14 players in the post-Sir Alex Ferguson apocalypse who have been billed as a great redeemer before falling foul of playing for The Greatest Club In The World, in chronological order.

Adnan Januzaj
Manchester United and David Moyes’ saviour after a brace on his full debut against Sunderland in October 2013, with a display which briefly, incredibly led to talks of him also being England’s salvation amid suggestions of re-nationalisation with Belgium littered with forward options compared to the dearth of talent Roy Hodgson had to call upon. How things have changed away from Old Trafford.

Januzaj managed just three further goals in 60 games for United and recently admitted his “life peaked” at the Stadium of Light.

Angel Di Maria
We’re not sure anyone hates Manchester United as much as Angel Di Maria. After three goals and six assists in his opening nine games for the club he got injured and then essentially looked as though he couldn’t be arsed with it.

He later claimed Louis van Gaal was his “worst ever coach”, that he “didn’t give a sh*t” about the No.7 shirt, while  former PSG goalkeeper Marcin Bulka revealed – in a glorious show of pettiness – that “when something related to Manchester United appears on television, he changes the channel quickly”.

Marcus Rashford
Given he now wants to leave but no f***er can afford Manchester United’s asking price or his wages, that £84m contract he signed 18 months ago feels like a pretty significant misstep for everyone involved.

Rashford could just about have had his pick of any European club at that point on the back of a 30-goal season, while his ‘dream’ of Barcelona now feels fanciful at best. And United are going to be taking a massive hit no matter what happens having turned away £100m approaches in the past.

Axel Tuanzebe
“To put up a performance like this against Neymar and Mbappé, I have to say he almost surprised us as well,” Ole Gunnar Solskjaer admitted after Tuanzebe’s shut down two of European football’s most-feared forwards in the Parcs des Princes.

A year earlier, at 21 years old, he became the youngest player to captain United since Norman Whiteside in 1985, during an EFL Cup victory against Rochdale. He was tipped for great things at Old Trafford but now finds himself at Ipswich, chiefly watching from the sidelines as injuries continue to blight a once hugely promising career.

Mason Greenwood
He was good. He’s still good. Manchester United were right to get rid of him.

Brandon Williams
Gary Neville said back in January 2020 that he “loves Brandon Williams to bits”. Why? “Because he has that look in his eye of someone that would eat his opponents nose to win the match”. Oh, that look.

He was genuinely Manchester United’s best player in that period and is now unemployed.

Cristiano Ronaldo
A brace on his Sensational Return to Old Trafford and a few goals more after that, and as it turns out his lack of pressing wasn’t the sole reason for Manchester United being rubbish, but he ensured it went to sh*t, throwing most of it over his shoulder as he walked out the door in a Piers Morgan-expedited blaze of hard feelings.

Anthony Elanga
Despite one playing for Champions League-chasers and the other in a team closer to the relegation zone, we’re not sure Elanga is or was ever at Diallo’s level, and it felt as though it was more Ralf Rangnick than anyone else who put Elanga on a pedestal, more in a bid to shame his overpaid, work-shy teammates than anything else.

But he did enjoy a brief spell in the United sun; hailed as a “role model” by Rangnick after a Diallo-esque rescue act against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League, “playing as though it was a dream come true” like United’s new right winger before being granted sweet release from his boyhood club to join a serious outfit.

Alejandro Garnacho
We’re not sure any Manchester United footballer (and this is saying something) has ever been overhyped to quite the same level as Garnacho. His Puskas award-winning madness certainly hasn’t helped amid absurd comparisons to Cristiano Ronaldo, Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi for a footballer who is very good occasionally, terrible quite often and fine most of the time.

Ruben Amorim’s not convinced, neither is Paul Scholes and if United can get Napoli, Atletico Madrid, Chelsea or anyone else to pay £50m or a guy who doesn’t really look like he wants to be there, they should take the money and spend it on someone who does.

Lisandro Martinez
His Premier League debut against Brighton was shocking, but he was soon lauded as a diminutive aggressor who made Jamie Carragher look daft through his heightest claims. The Butcher, and all that.

But as is the case for so many United players, what we’ve seen of Martinez since that first Erik ten Hag season has us wondering whether we dreamed his dominant displays, those crisp and accurate passes out from the back, his comfort when taking the ball in tight spaces.

Every now and again he puts in a performance – like against Liverpool – to remind us of what he’s capable of, rather the propensity for stupid decisions or no decisions at all that he now has as his base state.

Antony
He scored a goal in each of his first three Premier League games and has managed a further five in his next 59. That Southampton miss says it all.

Rasmus Hojlund
His substitution soon after half-time against Southampton felt like a moment when the Hojlund stans may have considered changing their social media avatars

He had been awful to the point where even the most ardent of his apologists couldn’t disagree with him being hooked, with their typical claims that Hojlund only having 18 touches in that time Not Being His Problem But Everyone Else’s easily shot down by the vast majority of those touches ballooning off whichever part of his body happened to be in the way.

It’s telling that he’s the only member of the three former ‘untouchables’ not to be linked with a move away in this window, and it’s because he’s done next to nothing for Manchester Untied – and we don’t just mean goals and assists but everything in between – since a glut of goals a year ago when the majority hailed the arrival of The Real Hojlund, who’s been conspicuous by his absence since.

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Kobbie Mainoo
Paul Scholes says it would be “absolutely ridiculous” and we don’t disagree, but based on this season alone, Manchester United should definitely be considering £70m bids, from Chelsea or other willing parties.

And we would ask those of you desperate to see Mainoo remain at Old Trafford as a generational talent and possible future United captain to put your incredulity at his sale aside to consider a career featuring six months of excellence followed by six months of mediocrity.

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Joshua Zirkzee
His impact from the bench against Southampton drew praise from guilt-ridden Manchester United fans who now chant his name in penance having jeered him from the pitch against Newcastle, but one half of reasonable football doesn’t constitute a redemption arc for a striker who has scored two goals in 20 Premier League appearances since his winner on debut that got United fans giddy over the prospect of having two goalscorers to call upon rather than the since dawned reality of not having any.