Man Utd gossip special: Memphis, Belotti

FROM MEMPHIS TO MOSCOW…
If reports are to be believed that Jose Mourinho does not want to loan Memphis Depay to another Premier League club (and risk looking silly), then Spartak Moscow could offer the perfect solution. It’s miles away. According to Russian reports, they want the Dutchman on loan.

Sport Express claim that the Russian Premier League leaders will try and use Depay’s friendship with Quincy Promes to tempt him to Russia. Yes, that’s the same Quincy Promes who has been linked with a January move to Liverpool.

 

BELOTTI WOULD COST £80M
Manchester United target Andrea Belotti is set to sign a new contract at Torino with an £80million buyout clause, according to the Daily Mirror. Well, according to their reading of Gazzetta dello Sport anyway. The 22-year-old has scored ten goals in 11 Serie A games for Joe Hart’s club this season, has broken into the Italy national team and has apparently caught the eye of United as well as Arsenal and Leicester.

But if they want him, they really will have to pay through the nose. According to these new reports, Belotti has been offered a contract worth around £25,000 a week that will include a buy-out clause setting his price at a massive £80m for foreign clubs.

 

ZLATAN BACKS LINDELOF
Another supposed Manchester United target – Benfica centre-half Victor Lindelof – is good enough to play for the the club, according to fellow Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

“I think Victor is doing great things, he is playing good for Benfica, he gets a lot of responsibility for the national team now, he is growing,” he told the Manchester Evening News. “Is he good enough for United? I think he’s good enough for the big clubs out there. It’s up to him what he wants and what the situation says. Whatever he chooses will be good for him. I know he is hot on the market so let him make the right choice, what fits him good.”

 

AND THE REST
Chelsea striker Diego Costa and goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois are set to sign new contracts with the club…Former Aston Villa and England defender Joleon Lescott is set to have his AEK Athens contract ended…Aston Villa are preparing an offer for Ludogorets’ 25-year-old Brazilian winger Jonathan Cafu…Mario Mandzukic is a shock target for West Ham when the transfer window opens…Everton are preparing a winter window splash for teenage sensation Kasper Dolberg…Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny has revealed he will finish his career with the Gunners, or back with former club Lorient.