Manchester United lead three Premier League clubs in race for Nicolas Pepe

Liverpool, Arsenal and Everton have all been linked with a move for the forward this summer, but Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side are at the front of the queue. United scored fewer goals than Manchester City, Liverpool, Tottenham and Arsenal last term, and Solskjaer is therefore keen to strengthen in attack. The Norwegian has identified Pepe, who scored 22 Ligue 1 goals in 2018/19, as the ideal man to compete with the likes of Marcus Rashford, Jesse Lingard, Anthony Martial, Alexis Sanchez and Daniel James in the wide positions. Lille value their star man at over £70m, which is likely to put him out of the reach of Arsenal and Everton.  Liverpool are also keeping tabs on the situation, but United look best placed to land the Ivory Coast international. READ MORE Is there any point of handing in a transfer request? FourFourTwo investigates 10 incredible goals wasted in meaningless friendlies Manchester United want to bolster attack by signing this international winger Monday’s big transfer rumours: Manchester United scout Ivory Coast star Liverpool and Inter Milan to battle it out for Ligue 1 winger Liverpool have ‘moved up a gear’ in their pursuit of €80m rated winger – report Aston Villa pushing hard to sign Manchester City youngster Blades break transfer record again to capture Mousset from Bournemouth Shelvey urges Newcastle fans to give Bruce a chance Manchester City in pole position to land Argentinian teenager – but he’ll join this club on loan first Tottenham look set to finally offload Vincent Janssen – and his destination is surprising Arsenal set to complete €40 million transfer of Copa America hero Everton PES 2020 news and hands-on impressions: finesse dribbling, new Matchday mode and revamped Master League make for improved experience Mohamed Salah set to become England’s best-paid footballer with new Liverpool deal Bayer Leverkusen youngster says he’s ready for next step amid Liverpool interest Tottenham and Atletico Madrid hold crunch talks over Christian Eriksen future