After months of scouting Manchester United has signed Sporting Lisbon’s William Carvalho for £37 million according to an article written by the Sunday Peoples Steve Bates.
William Carvalho is set to become Manchester United’s first big summer signing.
The Sporting Lisbon defensive midfielder’s agent was given a tour of the club’s Carrington training ground last week and Portuguese international Carvalho will sign for United for £37million before the World Cup finals in Brazil.
United boss David Moyes is also confident he can land Bayern Munich midfielder Toni Kroos, who is keen to move to Old Trafford even though United will miss out on Champions League football next season.
The Angolan-born 21-year-old has a £37m release clause in his contract which United are prepared to trigger before the World Cup begins on June 12.
We must point out that it is only the People newspaper that is saying this is a done deal, but as with many foreign players the actual ownership structure can be quite complicated as is the case with Carvalho who is only 60% owned by Sporting with a separate company called BES owning the other 40%.
Carvalho is under contract with the Portuguese club until 2018 and has a massive buyout clause of 45€ million.
