Man Utd transfer news: Five Arnautovic and five Rabiot alternatives they could target

Marko Arnautovic and Adrien Rabiot have recently emerged as major transfer targets for Premier League giants Manchester United.

United have been in touch with both Bologna and Juventus attempting to negotiate deals for the players in recent days.

But it’s fair to say the reaction amongst Red Devils fans has been overwhelmingly negative judging by today’s social media outburst.

Due to that, we’ve decided to attempt to do United’s recruitment department’s job for them and pick out five alternatives for each player that we feel would be a serious upgrade on their prospective signings.

West Ham’s favourite son certainly wouldn’t come cheap – but when do United ever do anything overly-wise with their money nowadays?

In terms of his on-pitch offering, Rice is arguably twice the player Rabiot is.

It goes without saying that Englishman is a more defensively sound player than Rabiot and just about any other options United have in the middle of the park.

However, Rice also put up considerably better attacking numbers in 2021/22 than his counterpart, contributing five goals and four assists for the Hammers compared to Rabiot’s two assists for Juventus.

A scorer of great goals, Neves really is a man who knows how to pull off the spectacular.

He’s also now made 141 Premier League appearances despite being just 25, so strikes a nice balance between experience and room for growth.

The Wolves star has reportedly been a Man Utd target throughout this summer which begs the question as to why they haven’t swooped in for him ahead of Rabiot already…

The iconic Frenchman endured a difficult year by his lofty standards last time out and, with just one year remaining on his contract, we wonder whether Chelsea could be tempted to cash