Izuchukwu OkosiAhead of Saturday night’s pre season friendly against Premier League rivals, Arsenal, Manchester United have turned their summer transfer attentions to the duo of Rasmus Hojlund and Sofyan Amrabat.
The Old Trafford landlords have secured the signature of Cameroon international, Andre Onana from Inter Milan and the Serie A seems to be the place of destination for the United hierarchy.
Onana have signed a five-year deal to become Africa’s most expensive goalkeeper.
Now, another African star, Amrabat could join from Fiorentina along Danish international, Hojlund.
Several sources in the English media are reporting on Friday that Fiorentina have set a price of £25m for Amrabat who was the standout defensive midfielder at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
United are hopeful of getting a good alternative to Casemiro who missed a large amount of games last season due to suspensions.
Amrabat has played for the Purples on 107 occasions in all competitions, scoring once and providing one assist.
Atalanta youngster, Hojlund, has been valued for over £80m but it remains to be seen if United who are still not with new owners as expected, will shell out such huge outlay on a youngster.
Meanwhile, tickets for the friendly against the Gunners will kick off at 10pm local time with Onana expected to make his United debut in a packed stadium which has been sold out according to reports on Friday.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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