{"id":36788,"date":"2026-01-03T19:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/01\/03\/negotiations-held-manchester-united-discuss-signing-versatile-18-year-old-wideman\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T19:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:08:30","slug":"negotiations-held-manchester-united-discuss-signing-versatile-18-year-old-wideman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/01\/03\/negotiations-held-manchester-united-discuss-signing-versatile-18-year-old-wideman\/","title":{"rendered":"Negotiations held: Manchester United discuss signing versatile 18-year-old wideman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\">\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Manchester United have reportedly held internal discussions over a potential move for Sporting Lisbon&#8217;s high-profile young wideman Salvador Vulopa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old Portugal youth international has become a regular in Sporting&#8217;s first team this season and has already shown his importance, scoring two goals in six games in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t much information available at the moment, but the Daily Mail reports that Man United are interested in Vulopa.<\/p>\n<p>Whether this becomes something more concrete for the Red Devils remains to be seen, but Vulopa is certainly an exciting prospect who will continue to attract interest from big clubs.<\/p>\n<h2>Who is Manchester United&#8217;s transfer candidate Salvador Bropa?<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salvador Vulopa celebrating a goal for Sporting Lisbon (Credit: Mario Vasa)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vulopa is a versatile young talent who can play as both a right-back and a winger and has already made a real impression at Sporting&#8217;s top level.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese giants often draw the best talent from their academy, most notably the legendary Cristiano Ronaldo and another all-time great, Luis Figo.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Paris Saint-Germain&#8217;s left-back Nuno Mendes has also been active at Sporting, along with Giovanny Quenda, who will join Chelsea next season.<\/p>\n<p>Vropa are hoping to land a big transfer and follow in their footsteps, but it&#8217;s unclear how concrete or advanced this will be at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>However, some imagine that right-back or even wing-back in Ruben Amorim&#8217;s 3-4-3 formation could make sense as one of United&#8217;s priorities, and it looks like Vulopa could be an ideal fit for that system.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End -->\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United have reportedly held internal discussions over a potential move for Sporting Lisbon&#8217;s high-profile young wideman Salvador Vulopa. The 18-year-old Portugal youth international has become a regular in Sporting&#8217;s first team this season and has already shown his importance, scoring two goals in six games in all competitions. There isn&#8217;t much information available at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":{"0":"post-36788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}