Jake Turner wanted by Manchester United as Mourinho plots swoop for Bolton’s England youth star

An Alan Nixon story -


MANCHESTER UNITED are plotting a surprise swoop for Bolton’s England youth keeper Jake Turner.
They see the 18-year-old as a potential No 1 choice in the next few years.

Wanderers have only just put Turner on a full-time contract and he was on the bench last season.
United boss Jose Mourinho wants to coach him for the future at Old Trafford.
Everton also rate Turner highly, but United have the lead in the race.
Bolton will take the biggest offer.
United have been tipped off by some of the FA coaching staff about the quality of the Cheshire-born Under-18 cap.
And they are poised to pounce before Turner starts a senior game.

Bolton need money so boss Phil Parkinson can boost his promoted side’s Championship hopes.
He wants to snap up midfield dynamo Jason Lowe after he left neighbours Blackburn.
Lowe, 25, was skipper at Rovers in their relegation campaign and they let him go in May to cut his wages from their payroll.

Bolton are prepared to offer him more than £500,000-a-year despite their financial troubles.
Parkinson sees Lowe as a replacement for Jay Spearing — who failed to agree a new contract — and hopes to sort out a deal in the next couple of days.
Nottingham Forest are also watching.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/4076729/manchester-united-transfer-news-bolton-jake-turner/

Sluffy wrote:Bolton are prepared to offer him more than £500,000-a-year despite their financial troubles.

Utter bullshit! Where do they come up with this shit?

Natasha Whittam wrote:

Sluffy wrote:Bolton are prepared to offer him more than £500,000-a-year despite their financial troubles.

Utter bullshit! Where do they come up with this shit?

I think Iles once said that under the embargo the most we can pay to a player is £10,000 a week.

If so that is around £500,000 a year.


Maybe it's just a ploy to get Spearing back by saying, if you won't play for £500,000 per year there are plenty others who will.

Who knows, Nixon doesn't always get the story right but to be fair to him he gets more right than wrong.

Tweet from a Phil Cunliffe who is a sports reporter on BBC Radio Lancashire -

Ken wants £4m. One of those clubs [United or Everton] has already been told that.

Seems that Anderson's son Lee is saying differently on twitter -

No truth in turner . No approaches either . Interest has been there by many since we arrived . Just signed a long term deal .

Let's hope it isn't true. This is what is wrong with football imo. Greedy clubs with pots of cash buying all potentially talented young players from smaller clubs so they can stick them on the bench so nobody else can play them.