Get the latest United updates, transfer news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free Manchester United have a free run to sign Raphael Varane this summer after Real Madrid president Florentino Perez all but confirmed the club is prepared to sell the defender.
Varane, 27, is approaching the final year of his Madrid contract and Perez told El Larguero ' some players will have to be sold' and 'if someone does not want to be [at Real Madrid], then they leave'.
Sources close to Varane say some clubs are only prepared to wait until next year to sign the Frenchman without having to pay a fee but Perez is so desperate to prevent that from happening he is willing to sanction Varane's sale this summer.
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