Everything was ready - Agent claims client was close to signing for Manchester United

German Tkachenko, the agent of Russian striker Fedor Smolov, has spoken to Russian YouTube channel KraSawa and claimed Manchester United were showing an interest in his client last year.

Now playing for Lokomotiv Moscow, Smolov was strongly linked with a move to the Premier League when he was at Krasnodar, but a transfer to England never materialised.

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