Manchester United target Sadio Mane doesn’t intend to extend his contract at Southampton as he intends to leave the club at the end of the season.
The striker's current contract will end in 2018 but he will have to stay at the club for the rest of the season due to the club saying that they are planning to refuse all offers for the player in the January transfer window.
Mane set to refuse new deal with Southampton
The 23-year-old is unsettled at the club after he was dropped from the squad for turning up to the pre-match meeting ten minutes late. Manager, Ronald Koeman, had brought forward the start time.
The player is supposed to be reintegrated into the side before the next game as he is one of the side’s star players but he, according to reports, in unhappy at the club.
Mane has been chased by both Manchester United and Bayern Munich and even though Koeman’s annoyance was linked with the departure of the striker this window, the player has been told that he will not be sold from the club this January.
United will have to let go of £30 million for Mane
Manchester United are willing to pay around £20 million to Southampton for the player last summer but the scarce nature of strikers at the moment in the world of football and the new Premier League television deal will push the players' price up beyond the £30 million mark.
This season, United have had problems scoring and they have been either finishing games with goalless draws or losses. The only strikers at United this season are Anthony Martial, who is being played on the left wing, and Wayne Rooney, who is either being played in the striker spot or as an attacking midfielder.
The club have even recalled the loan of 22-year-old Will Keane from Preston in an attempt to mix up the side to try and score more goals. Keane only scored two goals in 22 appearances whilst on loan.
