Manchester United offered cut-price on unsettled PSG striker

Cavani has been prolific for PSG, but is not happy at the club

MANCHESTER UNITED have been told they can have Edinson Cavani for £32million, two-thirds of what PSG paid for him.

 

Cavani arrived in Paris for a French record fee of around £45million in 2013, and scored 16 league goals in his first season.

He topped that with 18 in the next, and already has nine in 13 starts so far this season, but his manager Laurent Blanc has admitted that the Uruguayan is unsettled at the club.

"Cavani? He was not very happy: the players, when they go out, they are rarely happy, so it is not very serious, I can understand it," Blanc said.

 

And now French magazine L'Equipe are reporting that PSG have named their price for the 28-year-old should United want to take him in January.

Louis van Gaal's side have been struggling for goals, with Wayne Rooney out of form, and summer signing's Memphis Depay and Anthony Martial failing to have the desired impact.

The Dutchman has also been linked with efforts to bring Arjen Robben to Old Trafford, although a double swoop may stretch United's transfer budget too far.

 

In contrast to Robben though, Cavani is seen as an ideal long-term replacement for Rooney, whose downturn in form some have seen as the beginning of the end of his career.

Cavani is not the only striker who may be on the way out at Paris, as Zlatan Ibrahimovic, whose contract expires in June 2016, has been linked with a reunion with Jose Mourinho at Chelsea.