Di Maria ‘close’ to PSG move

United paid £59.7m to Real Madrid for Di Maria last year which is less than half of what PSG is offering for the Argentine star.

While Van Gaal’s tinkered with his lineup as the Premier League campaign looms, all but one of his players, Sean Goss, has seen the field.

“There is an anticipation he is going to come to the US but as to which jersey he is going to wear, we don’t know yet”. It is not done.

The victory, before 61,351 spectators, brought PSG the trophy for the series of summer exhibitions.

United’s best player on the night, Darmian is proving to be a solid signing by Louis van Gaal and was strong in both defence and attack.

French worldwide Matuidi raced forward and got between Luke Shaw and Phil Jones to toe-poke home past the onrushing David De Gea to make it 1-0.

Paris Saint-Germain boss Laurent Blanc expects “a positive outcome” in the French domestic treble winners’ pursuit of Manchester United winger Ángel Di María.

Shaw and Jones were unable to deal with Matuidi, who showed tremendous strength before poking the ball past De Gea, who left himself stranded, with relative ease. “They can score out of these kind of errors, and they can finish the game“. PSG beat SL Benfica and Fiorentina before losing to Chelsea on penalties.

Ibrahimovic and Maxwell, the Brazilian defender, played a brilliant give-and-go for PSG’s second goal in the 34th minute.

Ibrahimovic picked up the ball in midfield and released Maxwell down the left flank. In the 55th minute, Mata failed to connect on a shot from the right doorstep that would have cut the Red Devils’ deficit in half.

Bastian Schweinsteiger started his first match for United as Van Gaal named close to a full-strength XI, with Wayne Rooney, David de Gea, Memphis Depay, Juan Mata, Darmian, Shaw and Michael Carrick all included. “He’s very young so it’s not so easy for him to come from Southampton to as big a club as Manchester United“, Van Gaal said to The Guardian.

United had been aiming to maintain their 100% record after registering wins over Club America, San Jose Earthquakes and European champions Barcelona in their three previous games.

Di Maria scored 4 goals accompanied by 11 assists for Manchester United last season.