Manchester United Pursuing European Wonderkid Following Exceptional Scout Report: Report

Over the summer, the club made significant investments in their squad by acquiring five new players for a total of nearly £200million. Leny Yoro, Joshua Zirkzee, Matthijs de Ligt, Noussair Mazraoui, and Manuel Ugarte are all expected to play major roles in the first team this season.

Another strand of this new transfer policy is to avoid the expensive misfires that have dogged the club in recent years, with an emphasis on securing the best young talent available.

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The latest young player reported to be on the Red Devils’ radar is 20-year-old Turkish defender Ali Sahin Yilmaz, with Milliyet claiming that the club dispatched scouts to watch him in action for Turkey’s under-20s side when they took on England on Friday.

Yilmaz, who is on Turkish Super Lig side Trabzonspor’s books, is said to have impressed the Old Trafford delegates with his performance at centre-back in the 1-1 draw in Istanbul.

The report adds that there is no indication as to whether or not Manchester United will make a move at this stage, but after a positive scouting report, he appears to be on the club’s watchlist.

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Yılmaz, who is valued at €50,000 by Transfermarkt is yet to make his senior debut for Trabzonspor, but has been promoted to the first-team squad and was on their bench for the club’s last game, a goalless draw against Eyupspor.

The player is contracted until 2027 after putting pen to paper on a new deal earlier this summer and in FourFourTwo’s opinion, Manchester United are doing the right thing by casting their scouting net across Europe and monitoring players of Yilmaz’s potential.

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