{"id":1375,"date":"2026-04-27T14:27:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:27:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:27:37","slug":"no-matter-what-price-club-chief-sends-strong-message-to-man-utd-as-future-of-87m-rated-target-is-addressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=1375","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No Matter What Price&#8221; &#8211; Club Chief Sends Strong Message To Man Utd As Future Of \u00a387M Rated Target Is Addressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><strong>Red Bull Chief Oliver Mintzlaff has issued a warning to Man Utd and other clubs who are interested in Leipzig winger Yan Diomande.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Asked for his thoughts on the 19-year-old\u2019s future, Mintzlaff said he would be tempted to keep hold of the player this summer:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can say: If I were sporting director, I wouldn\u2019t sell this young player, who hasn\u2019t even completed a full season with us. No matter what price is being asked. I believe he\u2019s a player who can still develop further, because he\u2019s still very young. And he can certainly become more expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sra_unit\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"block-sra\" href=\"https:\/\/manunews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/snack-related-articles\/dist\/css\/snack-related.min.css?230424-120838\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"\/>\n<aside class=\"sra-group sra-related-list\">\n<h2 class=\"sra-group-head\">Most Read on ManUNews.com<\/h2>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mintzlaff has, though, admitted that there are several teams (including ones in the Premier League) who are keen on signing Diomande, but he would back Leipzig to retain the Ivorian and secure him to a longer contract:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, there are other clubs where players also want to take the next step \u2013 FC Bayern is one of them, but also clubs from England and Spain. But we have to expect that a player, even if he delivers outstanding performances here, doesn\u2019t leave again after just one year. Therefore, I can only recommend to the management that they keep this player with us for the coming season. And then we\u2019ll have to see how he develops\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to play in the Champions League. And that\u2019s naturally an argument for such a young player, to then deliver what he\u2019s shown in a second season and potentially develop further, also at an international level. So we have many good arguments. And the best argument is a long-term contract. Therefore, I\u2019m completely relaxed about the whole matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Leipzig could offer a sweetener to tempt Diomande into staying<\/h2>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"0fab81ce12e48a0794275e1d82449fb1\" image-id=\"1076633333\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support --><br \/>The Bundesliga side are said to be looking at ways to keep their forward beyond the end of the season, despite the interest from United, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Chelsea and other teams.<\/p>\n<p>Including a release clause that can only be triggered next year may be proposed to persuade Diomande into putting pen to paper on a contract extension.<\/p>\n<h2>Man Utd may look at alternative targets<\/h2>\n<p>Diomande\u2019s current asking price could reportedly exceed \u20ac100m (\u00a387m) even if he doesn\u2019t extend his contract, and that may push the Red Devils towards pursuing other options anyway.<\/p>\n<p>AC Milan\u2019s Rafael Leao has been <strong>mentioned<\/strong> as a potential target in recent days. The Portuguese international could be on the market for \u00a360m. Everton\u2019s Iliman Ndiaye is also on the Manchester club\u2019s radar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more news on Man Utd? Add Man U News as a preferred source on Google<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull Chief Oliver Mintzlaff has issued a warning to Man Utd and other clubs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}