Manchester United to sign Bayern Munich winger this summer

Reports have today emerged that Jose Mourinho is interested in signing Douglas Costa from German Champions Bayern Munich should Juventus fail to make Costa’s loan permanent this summer.

Skilful winger

Costa is a very fast skilful winger who has proven for many seasons now he can be a handful for any defence in Europe.

He signed for Bayern Munich in 2015 from Shakhtar for £27 million and he would go on to score 14 and assist 27 in 77 games for the German giants.

Costa would then spend all of last season on loan in the Serie A with Juventus. The Italian Champions do have the option to make Costa’s loan permanent. However, they have yet to do so and Manchester United are ready to pounce if Juventus do not do so.

While on loan at Juventus Costa was able to score six and assist 14 in 47 games throughout the 2017/18 season.

Jose Mourinho & Mauricio Pochettino during The Emirates FA Cup Semi Final match between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur at Wembley Stadium on April 21, 2018 in London, England.

Martial’s replacement

Furthermore, Manchester United could well be looking to sign Costa as a replacement for Anthony Martial.

Martial was already somewhat unhappy at Manchester United after he spent much of the 2017/18 season being used as a substitute.

He made 30 Premier League appearances scoring nine and assisting five. But despite the very respectable goalscoring record for a sub, Martial was unable to force his way to a regular starting place at United.

Martial’s misery will have been added to further when Didier Deschamps named his 2018 23-man World Cup Squad and Martial was not in it.

Being left out of a World Cup squad will be extremely frustrating for someone like Martial who knows it is very likely that if he was starting more often, he probably would have gone to Russia. 

This has led to speculation that Martial is on his way to Stamford Bridge this summer and as result, Costa could well be United’s replacement for the Frenchman.