New Frenkie de Jong bid to be made as Zinedine Zidane breaks silence on Manchester United links

Here are your evening Manchester United evening headlines for Thursday, June 23

Manchester United are expected to formally submit an improved bid to Barcelona for Frenkie de Jong imminently.

United made an opening offer of €60million (£51.64m) including add-ons that was rejected by Barca, who are unwilling to suffer a loss on a player they signed for £65m three years ago.

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Barcelona privately concede they cannot obtain the outlandish €100m Spanish outlets have quoted as their valuation of De Jong, 25, when they are prepared to sell him. Barca are believed to want a guaranteed €75m (£64.55m), with add-ons to ensure De Jong's overall fee surpasses what they paid Ajax to sign him.

Read the full story here.

Zinedine Zidane has admitted not fluently speaking English could be an obstacle to taking the United job in the future.

Zidane, 50, was among the favourites to be appointed manager of United after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was sacked in November last season. Zidane has regularly been linked with United since leaving Real Madrid for the first time in 2018.

The Frenchman won the Champions League in three consecutive seasons and he ended his second stint as manager of the club last year as the second-most decorated coach in its history. Madrid remains the only club that Zidane has managed.

Read what he said here.

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