. The report claims Manchester United, third in last season’s Premier League, are weighing a \u20ac40m bid after their scouts watched the German World Cup defender several times.<\/span><\/p>\nAccording to the report, the club that finished third in last season’s Premier League is weighing a \u20ac40 million bid after United scouts observed the centre-back on multiple occasions. Manager Michael Carrick, who took over on an interim basis after Ruben Amorim’s sacking at the start of the year and recently earned a two-year contract extension following a strong second half of the season, is keen to sign a new centre-back this summer, according to <\/span>the Mirror<\/em><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\nThe futures of injury-prone centre-backs Matthijs de Ligt and Lisandro Martinez are uncertain, so Anton has been highlighted in bold on United’s shortlist. <\/span>Sky<\/em><\/i> reported English interest in the Dortmund man back in March, with Aston Villa and Atl\u00e9tico Madrid also credited with an eye on the defender.<\/span><\/p>\nYet Dortmund is unlikely to countenance selling Anton: the German international is a mainstay of Niko Kovac’s back line, and personnel are thin on the ground after Niklas S\u00fcle’s retirement and Emre Can’s cruciate ligament injury.<\/span><\/p>\nAlthough centre-back Nico Schlotterbeck recently extended his contract, he included an exit clause that could still allow a move to a top international club after the World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\nAnton, who joined Dortmund from VfB Stuttgart in 2024, is under contract with BVB until 2028. The 29-year-old has made the German World Cup squad as a backup centre-back behind first-choice pair Schlotterbeck and Jonathan Tah (FC Bayern). Should Joshua Kimmich be unavailable, Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann could deploy Anton as a right-back for the tournament in the USA, Mexico and Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Borussia Dortmund could lose centre-back Waldemar Anton, according to The Mirror. The report claims Manchester United, third in last season’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}