MANCHESTER UNITED reportedly have no interest in letting Amad Diallo stay at Atalanta on loan for the rest of the season.
Goal claim Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is keen to integrate the teenager into his first-team squad ahead of his imminent arrival in England.
Manchester United are finally set to get their hands on Amad Diallo
The Atalanta teen is set to link up with the Red Devils first-team instead of the club’s U23sCredit: Getty Images – Getty
The report adds that United view the Ivorian differently to fellow teen Facundo Pellistri, who signed on the same day back in October.
The latter has been getting to grips with English football by featuring for the Under-23s side but Diallo is more likely to be involved in the first-team.
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United have already had to wait three months for the 18-year-old after first agreeing a £37million deal including add-ons on deadline day in October.
Yet Atalanta manager Gian Piero Gasperini claimed over the weekend that his side would like to keep Diallo on loan until the end of the season.
He said: “Let’s hope. I launched the idea. If Manchester were forced to loan him out, maybe it would be better if he stayed with us again.”
However, Diallo appeared on route to complete his transfer to United on Monday after sharing a picture travelling on a plane.
It comes after manager Solskjaer revealed he expected the January arrival to link up with his new team-mates ‘very soon’.
He said: “We have had all the paperwork, I can’t see any obstacles. He’s coming. I hope very soon he will be with us.
“I’m very excited about bringing him in, I think he’s shown a few times his qualities.
“Of course he has to learn to play in England, that’s a different level of football. We’ll give him time to develop and to express himself.
“Apart from that, I’m not really thinking too much on what we’re going to do with players [in the January transfer window].”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
