Manchester United remain hopeful of signing Elliott Anderson this summer.<\/strong><\/p>\n The 23-year-old defensive midfielder has been outstanding for Nottingham Forest and could be the ideal replacement for Casemiro.<\/p>\n Manchester United need players who can protect their defense and win the ball back in the middle of the park.<\/p>\n Anderson would be an unusual acquisition. He has shown his potential at Nottingham Forest and could play for a bigger club. Joining Manchester United could be exciting for him. However, Manchester City are reported to be the frontrunners to seal the deal.<\/p>\n We need more depth in the middle of the park. Rodri has been struggling with injury problems and Manchester City need another specialist defensive midfielder.<\/p>\n Fabrizio Romano says Manchester United have been in contact with the player about a possible transfer, but it remains to be seen how the situation will turn out.<\/p>\n Romano said of Anderson: <\/span>YouTube channel: “Don’t forget that Manchester City are also continuing to push to sign Elliott Anderson from Nottingham Forest.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThey know Manchester United are still making calls, but Manchester City are still pushing.<\/p>\n “I said in March that they were always the favorite to sign Elliott Anderson.<\/p>\n “They have decided to do that. They want to offer the player a really important contract, so they have already taken some approaches.<\/p>\n “So I believe Man City can really seduce Elliott Anderson and that hasn’t changed, including Enzo Maresca. City are going to sign Anderson.”<\/p>\n “It’s not just Guardiola. Now that they have Maresca, City are still after him. Let’s see what happens at Nottingham Forest. Man Utd are still trying.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Anderson is one of the best midfielders in the league and could be an asset for both Manchester clubs.<\/p>\n He will want to compete at a high level and fight for trophies. Both clubs could offer him Champions League football next season and it will be interesting to see where he goes.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fabrizio Romano and the Man United logo on the corner flag (Photo by Alex Livesey\/Getty Images) Manchester United remain hopeful of signing Elliott Anderson this summer. The 23-year-old defensive midfielder has been outstanding for Nottingham Forest and could be the ideal replacement for Casemiro. Manchester United need players who can protect their defense and win […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-47771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47771","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=47771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n