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Patrick Dorgu has been described as an “unimaginable participant” by his Lecce teammate who attracts a comparability between the 20-year-old wing-back and world-class AC Milan fullback Theo Hernandez.
Manchester United have reached a “broad settlement” with Lecce to signal the Danish worldwide for a deal value an preliminary £25 million with a further £5 million in potential add-ons.
Outdated Trafford officers recognized Dorgu as a key goal within the winter window to fill the vacant left wing-back place in Ruben Amorim’s squad.
United noticed two bids rejected by Lecce with the Serie A aspect reported to be holding out for a complete bundle value €40 million (£33.5 million). Nonetheless, there was optimism at Outdated Trafford {that a} compromise might be struck with the membership’s delicate monetary state of affairs that means each penny counts this yr.
Amorim is believed to have personally authorized Dorgu as a goal with the Dane possessing a potent pairing of tempo and physicality. He stands 6’2 and has glorious stamina whereas offering a relentless risk within the opposition half.
Dorgu is positionally versatile, having performed at left wing-back, left-back, right-back, proper wing-back and, most frequently, right-wing for Lecce this season.
The Serie A aspect, stationed 18th within the league desk, use the 20-year-old as one thing of a Swiss military knife, deploying Dorgu in several positions as the extent of opposition dictates.
This comfortability on both flank may have been key to Amorim’s approval with the United squad struggling to supply solutions at left wing-back or proper wing-back, exterior of the good Amad who’s finest deployed additional ahead.
And it’s this versatility which leads Lecce striker Nikola Krstovic to remark, “[Dorgu] is aware of how you can play in a number of positions: up entrance, on the again, on the appropriate. I wouldn’t be shocked to see him play in purpose.”
Dorgu’s teammate is effusive in his reward of the younger defender’s progress as “he will get higher with every day”.” He’s “an unimaginable participant once you assume he’s solely 20,” Krstovic concludes.
And the Lecce marksman, who has himself declared an interest in playing for the Red Devils, affords a tantalising comparability to excite United followers. Krstovic believes the Danish worldwide is “a bit like Theo [Hernandez], though Dorgu is extra attacking.”
Hernandez, 27, is likely one of the premier left-backs in Europe with the AC Milan defender among the many gold normal for attacking fullbacks. The French worldwide was even believed to be a target at Old Trafford, although the membership’s funds would have prevented a transfer such is the value the Rossoneri would have demanded for his or her star defender.
To be in comparison with Hernandez by a participant inside Serie A is a hanging praise for Dorgu; and the very fact Krstovic describes the Dane as even “extra attacking” than the Frenchman affords a tantalising prospect for United followers as soon as Dorgu arrives in Manchester.
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