Manchester United legend Rio Ferdinand believes club captain Harry Maguire will be dying to play with Raphael Varane.
United are being linked with a big money move for the France and Real Madrid centre-back.
Varane has a year left on his contract at Real and the Spanish giants will cash in this summer if he does not renew.
Paris Saint-Germain also retain an interest in the 28-year-old, per French and Spanish media reports.
"He brings an absolute winning mentality, I think he's played in 14 finals and won 14," Ferdinand told Vibe with FIVE.
"He knows how to win, he's got great experience. He's an unbelievable specimen as well, he's quick as they come.
"I've been saying, alongside Maguire he needs someone with pace, the way that Man United play. They need some pace.
"When I've seen Man United have problems and in trouble in games, a lot of the times teams have been given a vote of confidence or they've seen a chink in the armour of Man United, when they can get people one versus one or play the ball over the defence or over the press into one of the channels then it's a race. We haven't got the players quick enough to be able to do that in the centre-back areas.
"If we get someone like him, people start thinking, 'we ain't going to play the ball over the top because Varane will eat that up'.
"In an England shirt, you can't fault him [Maguire]. He comes in, he brings an authority with the way he plays, there's a conviction, other players seem to grow when he's on the pitch, he organises, he takes the ball, there's a composure he brings to the back line. I don't say all those things with as much conviction as I do about him in a Man United shirt.
"That might be for many reasons because the team is not as confident at some points, there's not as much cohesion with the team, the England set-up and international way of playing, style of football and a slow pace might suit him more.
"There are different factors but if we can get that feeling with Maguire in a Man United shirt, then Man United go on to another level as well. And that might need a Varane to help him do that."
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