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Man Utd add Liverpool target Werner to shopping list

Manchester United have added RB Leipzig striker Timo Werner to their summer shopping list.

Goal says United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is looking at buying a younger, explosive striker in the summer.

Two of those on his wish list are Werner and Lyon striker Moussa Dembele.

At 24 and 23 respectively, they have enough experience to come straight into the starting XI but should have their best years ahead of them.

Werner has a release clause of around £51million which expires on June 15 but United face a near-impossible task of persuading the German to join them rather than runaway league leaders Liverpool.

Reports stated Jurgen Klopp held a "virtual meeting" with the forward - who has scored 30 in 38 this season - over Easter in an attempt to convince him to move to Merseyside.

Dembele, meanwhile, has been a long-term target for the Red Devils, even since his Fulham days before Marcus Rashford burst on to the scene and shelved their plans to sign the Frenchman.

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