Reports in France claim the mega-rich club will pay United €65million [£46million] for the 27-year-old, and Luiz is looking forward to playing alongside his former Benfica team-mate again.
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This may come as a little frightening news to fans who saw Daley blind as a makeshift centre-back so far in this tour of America, especially since they now take on the side with the best ratio of goals to games in the competition. “That’s not poor. Everybody can make mistakes but when a goalkeeper makes a mistake it is mostly a goal and that’s the difference.” he said about the own goal, as quoted in the Guardian.
United are already back in the UK, having jetted across the Pond in the wee small hours, and the squad will spend the next week at their Aon Training Complex prior to their opening league game against Tottenham on Saturday week.
Quoted on the club’s website, Van Gaal said: “I am really satisfied about the performance”.
“There are different stories to me”.
Manchester United manager Louis Van Gaal has revealed his preferred formation for next season.
Blanc appears to be a little more up-to-speed with his movements, though, and has reported that talks over a transfer are slowly moving closer to a resolution.
Without di Maria, Manchester United’s attack sometimes sputtered, while Paris Saint-Germain was able to hold on after goals from midfielder Blaise Matuidi and forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the first 34 minutes.
United’s defensive vulnerabilities were highlighted easily by PSG, though, who stole United’s worldwide Champions Cup crown thanks to their victory. An aimless long ball up field caused havoc in United backline, with neither Phil Jones nor Luke Shaw able to prevent Matuidi poking the ball beyond the on-rushing De Gea.
And Blanc offered an update on the club’s pursuit of the 27-year-old, telling reporters: “You know negotiations are in tandem [ongoing] and as Paris St Germain [and United] are both big clubs, that can be hard”.
When he was then asked where Di Maria actually was, the United manager added: “Maybe you know where he is”. Ibrahimovic found space in the United half, before finding Maxwell on the left wing.
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“I don’t know where he is,” he said.
