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6th June 2017
05:28pm BST

The player in question is said to be Tiemoue Bakayoko, the Monaco midfielder. Like most of the Ligue 1 club's 2016/17 squad, Bakayoko is being linked with a move elsewhere this summer. So far, Chelsea appeared to be leading the race for the player who is believed to have held discussions with the champions.
However, according to the Manchester Evening News, Jose Mourinho is said to be sniffing around the 22-year-old - not literally, that'd just be weird - with a view to bringing him to Manchester. Despite Chelsea being strongly linked with him, the report claims that a move to London is yet to be agreed.
As well as this, it also points out that Bakayoko is close to United's Anthony Martial, Explore more on these topics: