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MANCHESTER UNITED will suffer a £37MILLION loss if Aaron Wan-Bissaka leaves for Inter Milan this summer.
Inter are reportedly eyeing a £13million price tag on the Old Trafford full-back.
GettyWan-Bissaka, 26, will kick off United’s summer clear-out after making 13 Premier League starts this season.
He has seen his campaign disrupted by injury, missing 12 games in total due to hamstring issues.
Wan-Bissaka remains a fan-favourite, but he has reportedly been deemed surplus to requirements, despite the lack of fit defenders at United.
His contract is set to expire in 2025 after the club activated the option to extend his contract in January.
But United – who bought Wan-Bissaka from Crystal Palace for £50m in 2019 – are set to lose a staggering £37m if his move to Italy goes ahead.
According to Italian news outlet Calciomercato, Inter chiefs will pay no more than £13m to acquire his services.
That is roughly half the fee they hope to receive if Inter sell Denzel Dumfries in the summer following stalled contract talks.
The Serie A side did reportedly offer Dumfries to United in a swap deal in January, but this was rejected.
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Dumfries, 27, remains one of the best attacking right-backs in Europe following his five league assists and three goals this season.
But the Nerazzurri are aware of the growing interest in their starman and they will not let Dumfries go for less than £43.5million.
Dumfries’ current deal also runs out in 2025 and the defender has been on United’s radar for some time.
Wan-Bissaka is one of 11 stars reportedly on the chopping block following Sir Jim Ratcliffe‘s 27.7 per cent £1.03bn partial takeover.
Elsewhere, Chelsea are additionally interested in Dumfries coming to Stamford Bridge this summer.
The ongoing injury crisis around Blues captain Reece James has forced Mauricio Pochettino to consider bringing in reinforcements.
Meanwhile, despite making a total of 181 appearances for United, Wan-Bissaka has never made a senior England appearance.
Harry Maguire - from Man Utd comedy figure to Ten Hag's last hope
By Neil Custis
THIS time last year Harry Maguire accepted his future lay away from Manchester United — with boss Erik ten Hag happy for him to leave.
Now, Ten Hag has identified the England centre-half as the man to rescue United’s sorry season.
Maguire certainly wasn’t seen as so key last term when Raphael Varane, Lisandro Martinez, Victor Lindelof and even Luke Shaw — when United played a back-three — were ahead in the pecking order.
The ignominy of having the captain’s armband taken off him in the summer and handed to Bruno Fernandes felt like the final straw.
But before a proposed £30million move to West Ham could go through, a deeply hurt Maguire wanted a £15m payout from United and was not going to budge.
Neither would United and it looked like he was heading for footballing oblivion.
That was to underestimate the Sheffield-born player, who was determined to show his steel and prove his detractors wrong.
Through the ups and downs, trials and tribulations of this season, he can come out with his head held high, having constantly stepped up to the plate as injuries have ravaged the back four.
All of the four players mentioned previously are in the treatment room.
Maguire, 31, has been there himself but tries to play through the knocks, pulls and strains.
His experience will be even more important with 19-year-old Willy Kambwala alongside him at Bournemouth today — as he was in last Sunday’s 2-2 draw with Liverpool.
And Maguire now has Ten Hag’s praise ringing in his ears.
The United manager said: “We were always very happy with Harry Maguire but he wants to play.
“He’s a great leader, he’s a very good defender, very comfortable on the ball and I count all of those abilities. We have had problems with our defensive line so he is even more important to lead that line, to make us play from the back.
“We are very pleased he is there and we need him to get our results and achieve our targets.”
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