Manchester United are making ready to step up their curiosity in Royal Antwerp’s promising goalkeeper Senne Lammens, because the membership continues to discover choices to bolster their goalkeeping division forward of the brand new season, Softfootball understands.
The 21-year-old Belgian has emerged as a concrete goal for United, with the membership’s recruitment crew figuring out him as a long-term addition with the potential to compete for a first-team function sooner or later. The goalkeeper performed 40 video games for the Belgian facet and recorded 9 clear sheets, of which he saved 4 out of eight penalties.
In response to United Focus, discussions are nonetheless at a preliminary stage, however additional inquiry is claimed to be anticipated within the coming days as United intensifies efforts to land the highly-rated shot-stopper as competitors for alternative goalkeeper, Andre Onana.
United have already had talks together with his folks and are prepared to interact in discussions with Royal Antwerp, who’re believed to worth the 23-year-old at round €20 million (£17m). He’s seen as somebody who can push present primary Andre Onana, and the membership likes him as a goalkeeper as a result of his multidimensionality.
It is a follow-up to the sooner report executed by Softfootball of United’s curiosity in Botafogo’s goalkeeper John Victor after Onana was declared unfit for the beginning of the upcoming season.
Lammens joined Royal Antwerp from Membership Brugge final summer time and has impressed together with his composure, reflexes, and ball-playing skill, key traits that align with United’s evolving goalkeeping profile below Ruben Amorim. The Crimson Devils are eager so as to add depth and competitors to their present setup, with uncertainty nonetheless surrounding the way forward for backup keeper Altay Bayındır and veteran Tom Heaton.
United will seemingly be hasty with this deal if all necessities are met as the brand new season attracts nearer, as Onana has been dominated out for six weeks, which suggests the Crimson Devils start their 2025-2026 season marketing campaign with both a brand new signing or Bayindir.
