Manchester United willing to pay Gleison Bremer €10 million a year | OneFootball

Manchester United, along with Atletico Madrid, are prepared to increase Gleison Bremer’s salary to €10 million a year and pay €50 million to tempt Juventus into selling their star defender.

The Old Trafford side’s defence has been the subject of much criticism this season and it has become abundantly clear that INEOS will need to remedy the situation in the summer window.

This has resulted in the future of numerous centre backs being up in the air, as the likes of Raphael Varane, Jonny Evans and Harry Maguire could soon be playing their football away from the club.

Consequently, defenders such as Ronald Araujo, Jean-Clair Todibo and Jarrad Branthwaite have been heavily linked to a move to Old Trafford to replace these probable outgoings. One name that has also never been too far away from United’s is that of Brazilian Gleison Bremer.

The 27 year old is of interest to the Red Devils and it has been previously reported that Sir Jim Ratcliffe has no problems paying the Brazilian’s release clause, who is enjoying a sensational season in Serie A.

However, it soon became clear that Bremer’s release clause did not become active until next year and any side looking to sign the player would need to negotiate with the Old Lady this summer.

Calciomercato claim that both Manchester United and Atletico Madrid are ready to launch “a €50 million assault” for Bremer this upcoming window, hoping the fee to be sufficient to convince their Italian counterparts to do business.

Described as “one of the most successful purchases” at Juventus in many years and the best goal-scoring defender in Europe, Juventus are understandably reluctant to lose the player. The Italian paper give an example of this when they state, “with the goal scored against Roma, Bremer became the best central defender in Europe in terms of goals scored, two more than any other rival.”

However, financial problems mean that a sale of a top prospect is necessary and if they cannot sell Federico Chiesa, the club’s electric winger, then “proposals for the Brazilian defender will be taken into consideration”.

In this context, United are “ready to make a €50 million deal with a €10 million annual salary already offered to the player who wouldn’t say no.” The defender reportedly makes just over €9 million a year, so the contract offer from the Red Devils is a significant increase on his current deal.

However, the Italian outlet is quick to point out that €50 million will not be enough this summer to tempt them into a sale: “Juventus’ request is for at least €70 million, a figure that would allow for a large capital gain in the balance sheet.”

Without question, finding a long term partner for Lisandro Martinez seems to be the biggest focus of this summer for INEOS and it will be interesting to see if they decide that the goal scoring Brazilian is in fact the right man for the job.

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