Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti admitted Marco Asensio may leave the club in the closing days of the summer transfer window amid interest from Manchester United and Arsenal.
The 26-year-old has joined Jorge Mendes’s Gestifute agency and a representative is on standby to talk to the Gunners in London, with sources close to the player suggesting the North London side are in the box seat to land him.
However, United are also monitoring the situation having completed the £59m signing of Casemiro from Los Blancos and have been offered the chance to do a deal for the Spanish forward, which could be a stand-by deal in case their pursuit of Ajax forward Antony does not come to fruition.