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Blaise Matuidi heads to Manchester to complete Utd move

The France midfielder will be back in action for Deschamps’s side when the hosts take on world champions Germany in the European championship semi-finals on Thursday night.

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Matuidi joined PSG from Saint-Etienne in 2011 and has developed in to one of the best all-round midfielders in Europe over the past five years, helping the French giants secure four consecutive Ligue 1 titles and three domestic trebles.

PSG have signed three player so far this summer in Hatem Ben Arfa, Grzegorz Krychowiak and Thomas Meunier. The Pole is likely to get preference, given that Emery has wasted little time in signing him from their former club Sevilla.

Blaise Matuidi was in England to discuss a move to the Premier League amid talk of the Paris Saint-Germain midfielder joining Manchester United, according to Goal.

Matuidi is now on global duty with the France national team however, the report states that the box-to-box midfielder has been granted permission to leave the training camp and fly to the United Kingdom for talks.

Matuidi is represented by Mino Raiola, the agent behind two recent United transfers in Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan.

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Should a deal go through for Matuidi, it could cost Manchester United in the area of £20million.

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