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Manchester United have reached an agreement with Atalanta for winger Amad Diallo, who will join the club in January.
United will pay £ 37.2 million, including add-ons, for the 18-year-old, who seemed willing to join Parma until the transfer collapsed.
The deal is subject to Diallo passing a medical exam, agreeing to personal terms, and being granted a work permit.
United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been eager to sign a winger throughout the window and the club had been in talks with Barcelona about the loan of Ousmane Dembélé, while Borussia Dortmund rejected the 91.3 offer. million pounds by Jadon Sancho last week.
Diallo moved to the Atalanta academy in 2015 and made his senior category debut last October in a 7-1 win over Udinese.
The youngster found the net after coming off the bench in that match and thus became the first player born in 2002 to score a goal in Serie A.
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Diallo has made three Serie A appearances, while last season he scored seven goals and recorded 11 assists in 24 appearances for the youth team.
In the 2018/19 campaign, Diallo scored 18 goals and delivered 13 assists, and his impressive performances paved the way for him to start training with the Atalanta senior team.
Who is Amad Diallo?
Diallo, 18, was born in the Ivory Coast, before moving to Italy around the age of 10, and joined Atalanta in 2015.
The youngster made his debut for Atalanta last season, becoming the youngest player, at 17 years and 109 days, to score in his Serie A debut in the 7-1 defeat of Udinese.
As a result, the Ivorian traveled with the Atalanta team to Lisbon for their Champions League quarter-final defeat to Paris Saint-Germain last summer.
However, Diallo has appeared in just three league games for Atalanta, totaling just 30 minutes of football, while also being an unused substitute for the Italians so far this season.
However, the player has impressed in training, so much so that Papu Gómez recently compared him to a certain Lionel Messi.
“There are defenders in the first team who sometimes can’t stop him. To stop him in training, we have to kick him! He plays like Messi,” said the Atalanta captain.
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