Manchester United face a battle in landing Sporting Lisbon midfielder William Carvalho.
The London Evening Standard says United are already second in the race for 40m (£32m) Carvalho, with his agent, Jorge Mendes, under pressure from Real Madrid to place him there.
Carvalho had seemed to be the solution to United's long-standing lack of a defensive midfielder, though Mendes' relationship with Real's president, Florentino Perez, may be key to him heading to the Bernabeu. Ancelotti is understood to prefer the former United player Paul Pogba, now at Juventus.
