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Manchester United are contemplating a transfer for Mainz striker Jonathan Burkardt as they give the impression of being to bolster their goalscoring choices, in response to stories.
The 24-year-old is in superb type for the German over-achievers, who’re at present third within the Bundesliga behind solely Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen.
Burkardt’s efficiency in entrance of objective is a significant purpose for his or her success, and with 15 league objectives up to now this season solely Harry Kane and Patrik Schick are at present forward of him within the goalscoring charts.
FootballFanCast relay stories that the German has been added to United’s shortlist forward of a summer season switch window the place they’re sure to strengthen at centre-forward given the struggles of Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee.
That checklist can be thought to incorporate fellow Bundesliga forwards Hugo Ekitike from Eintracht Frankfurt and RB Leipzig’s Benjamin Sesko, together with Sporting CP’s Viktor Gyökeres, and Napoli’s Victor Osimhen, who’s at present on mortgage at Galatasaray.
Burkardt is recognized as a very tempting possibility given his present facet’s use of the identical 3-4-3 formation which kinds the idea of Ruben Amorim’s method, though for sheer familiarity and rapid impression it’s laborious to see the supervisor wanting past his former Sporting cost Gyökeres.
Nonetheless, the Mainz man would definitely come less expensive with a present worth of £21m on Transfermarkt, though he’s contracted with the membership till 2027 and can be attracting curiosity from different Premier League sides.
The 24-year-old has by no means performed wherever else and after rising by way of the youth ranks at Mainz he established himself as a key man in 2020, with a complete of 42 objectives in 137 video games for the membership he now recurrently captains.
He’s having fun with the best goalscoring season of his profession with 16 objectives and three assists in 23 video games in all competitions up to now.
That is already double his tally for the entire final marketing campaign, though he has additionally performed extra video games on condition that he was sidelined for a protracted stretch by way of harm.
Whereas his figures put United’s present strikers to disgrace, he isn’t but the confirmed 20-goals-a-season participant Amorim likely craves.
However as a left-field possibility, the striker who has been likened to Newcastle United’s Alexander Isak is an intriguing one on whom the Pink Devils might select to gamble as they did with Hojlund two years in the past.
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