In 's seek for a brand new centre-forward, two names proceed to pop up - Victor Osimhen and Harry Kane. However there is a cheaper various to the pair with an immensely excessive ceiling who stood out once more throughout Champions League motion on Tuesday evening.
Goncalo Ramos scored twice in Lisbon as Benfica dumped out Scott Parker's Membership Brugge with a 5-1 win on the evening and a 7-1 triumph on mixture. Ramos confirmed elegant footwork on the way in which to scoring his workforce's second of the evening to place the tie to mattress.
The Portugal worldwide danced previous three gamers with eye-catching shut management earlier than thundering a low strike previous Simon Mignolet. "I noticed him about 10 instances final yr and he appears as if he is improved tenfold already this yr," mentioned BT Sport co-commentator Steve McManaman after the aim.
And Ramos then made it 3-0 earlier than the hour mark, making a intelligent run into the close to publish earlier than sweeping a first-time effort low previous the keeper. "He actually does have the world at his toes," was the phrase from BT Sport's fundamental commentator, and United will little doubt concentrate on the 21-year-old's big potential.
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Ramos now has 23 targets and 9 assists in 34 outings for the Liga Portugal leaders, who're flying on the summit. Transfermarkt worth the striker at simply £35.6million - which might make him close to £70m cheaper than Osimhen and Kane.
In actuality, Benfica's wonderful administration means he might value greater than that. For instance, Darwin Nunez joined Liverpool from the Portuguese giants for £64m final summer season potential rising to £85m with add-ons.
Even with that factored in, it's clear Ramos - three years Osimhen's junior and eight years youthful than Kane - can be cheaper than the duo. That is regardless of his improbable hat-trick when changing then-United ahead Cristiano Ronaldo for Portugal on the World Cup in Qatar.
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Towards Brugge, Ramos produced a contemporary reminder of his abilities on the glitziest of membership phases. He's a prepared employee off the ball, which might enchantment to Erik ten Hag, however he additionally has higher goalscoring means than Wout Weghorst.
After all there may be a lot for Ramos nonetheless to enhance however at such a younger age, the trajectory of his profession solely seems to be up. And given the work Ten Hag has carried out with gamers like Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Alejandro Garnacho, Ramos might change into fairly the striker at Outdated Trafford.
Whether or not United transfer for him over Osimhen or Kane stays to be seen, but when these two show too tough - or too costly - to amass, Ramos will certainly be distinguished among the many Dutch tactician's ideas. He is definitely on the radar of loads of different golf equipment.