Mats Hummels is also a £16m target
Van Gaal also has his eye on this 2014 World Cup winning defender, with the United hieracrhy understood to have thrashed out a deal with Hummels’ current club Borussia Dortmund, according to the Daily Mail.
The 25-year-old has been impressing on the biggest stages for some years now and is considered to be one of the finest centre-backs in world football.
Therefore the price that chief executive Ed Woodward has reportedly agreed for the German – £16m – seems like a remarkably good piece of business.