Manchester United signing Victor Lindelof is a Stoke City reject!

TheMirror says Craig Honeyman, the agent who attempted to push through the deal, reckons Jose Mourinho's £30m signing has everything necessary to be a major success at Manchester United.

He said: “Victor is such a well-rounded guy – I can't see this move fazing him for one minute. But Stoke must be kicking themselves they let him slip through the net.

“We had been alerted to him ­because he'd made his debut in first-team football with Vasteras Sportklubb in Sweden when he was only 16.

“Stoke had agreed to take a look at Victor and another promising young player called Linus Sjoberg and we brought them over. They played him in a couple of matches at right-back. In fairness he was able to play there, at centre-half or as a holding midfielder.

“I saw one of the games and he did stand out. I'm not just saying that, even though I had an interest in him at the time.

"I pleaded with the club to allow Tony Pulis (their manager at the time) to have a look at him for just one day in training with the first-team before making a decision. They didn't think that he was able to do that.

"And they would have been able to take him for 300,000 Euros – about £200,000 back then – as compensation.

“I don't know how much the club has spent on defenders since. But they would have saved themselves a huge amount of money if they had spotted the potential."