Gossip: Ronaldo sparks Ten Hag ’emergency board request’; Man Utd, Arsenal battle for £40m Bayern star

Ten Hag has called an emergency board meeting which changes nothing as United battle Arsenal for a cut-price German international…

RONALDO ‘EMERGENCY’

Erik ten Hag will make an ’emergency board request’, according to Mirror, following Cristiano Ronaldo’s announcement that he wants to leave the club this summer, which is set to change the club’s transfer plans in no way whatsover…

Ronaldo has apparently suddenly realised that United have no hope of winning anything signficant this season, and Mirror claim Ten Hag is now calling on the board to ‘do what it takes’ to sign Antony. Weren’t they doing that anyway? Well, quite.

He’s also not really a striker, and was supposed to be a solution to their other forwards getting all upset at having to play on the right rather than the left.

£70m is the figure that’s being put about for Antony, who, like Martinez, fancies a move to Old Trafford.

MAN UTD, ARSENAL SERGE

Arsenal and Manchester United are currently embroiled in a transfer battle for Ajax centre-back Lisandro Martinez.

The Gunners are said to have made three offers, all of which have fallen below the Dutch side’s valuation, and United have bettered it in one with a £37m bid, with Martinez also preferring a move to Old Trafford.

But it’s not just Martinez the pair are said to be locking horns over, as the Daily Star claim they will fight over Bayern Munich winger Serge Gnabry, who has so far refused to sign a new deal at the Allianz Arena.

The report claims his reticence to commit his future has irked Bayern, who now want rid, for a cut price of £40m. Sounds like a steal.

The Bundesliga side certainly don’t want him to sit out his contract and leave for free next summer.

It’s said that there could be ‘consequences’ if he