Dortmund give Akanji green light to go
United’s interest in the 26-year-old surfaced via German journalist Patrik Berger earlier this week. Now, many of those details Berger shed light on have been backed up in Germany – including one crucial new update.

Sport Witness (citing German publication Ruhr Nachrichten) state Dortmund ‘will place Akanji on the market’ if he ‘wants to go’.

That is the clearest indication yet that a deal is there for the making if United firm up their interest.

Adding further fuel to the fire is the report’s confirmation of Berger’s prior revelations.

Akanji is again stated to have rejected a contract extension tabled by Dortmund. Furthermore, with just 17 months left on his deal, they will be left with little choice but to sell in the summer.

A fee in the region of €30m (£25.3m) is touted as being required to seal a deal. That could represent superb value in the modern market for a player who admitted he dreamed of playing for Man Utd in 2018.