Reports in England claim Norwegian striker Erling Haaland has told Ole Gunnar Solskjaer he wants to join Manchester United.

Haaland, who has become the hottest topic in European football ahead of next month’s transfer window, is wanted by the likes of United, Borussia Dortmund, Juventus, and RB Leipzig.

Currently a Red Bull Salzburg player, a swap to sister club Leipzig would appear to be on the cards, but the youngster apparently has other ideas.

As does his agent Mino Raiola, who also manages Paul Pogba and Matthijs de Ligt among other big name stars.

Raiola wants to keep Haaland’s options open, but United boss Solskjaer flew to Salzburg on Friday to make a sales pitch to their No 1 transfer target, and the striker seems to have been impressed, according to the Mirror.

He would be joining up with Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial up front for United, making for quite the potent strike force.

Raiola may look for Haaland to join up with de Ligt at Juventus though, which was a big-money move he helped get through the door earlier this year.

Haaland may have already played his last game for Salzburg, report the Sportsmail.

He didn’t feature against Hartberg through injury, and now the Austrian Bundesliga is on a two-month break.

The 19-year-old has reportedly been to visit the training grounds of Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig, and allegedly made a quick stop off at Carrington to see the Manchester United facilities.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Leonardo Bonucci delivered home win for Juventus, with the Portugal international scoring a brace for the Bianconeri after securing just one point in their two previous Serie A matches.

Juventus proved the trio of Cristiano Ronaldo, Paulo Dybala and Gonzalo Higuain can co-exist from the start in a 3-1 win over Udinese.

The three stars were relishing the opportunity to play together from the start and broke the deadlock early on. Dybala chested down a long Leonardo Bonucci ball, his attempt to turn was deflected, but turned into an assist for Ronaldo to drill home.

There was almost a second moments later, as Ronaldo’s back-heel flick set up Higuain, his through ball released Dybala, whose shot was deflected on to the side-netting by Sebastien De Maio.

Dybala had the ball in the net again with a delightful lob, but it was all for nothing, as he was booked for controlling the cross with his arm.

The trio combined again, Dybala sparking a dangerous counter by turning Rolando Mandragora inside out, then Ronaldo was cut off, but Higuain forced a low save at the near bottom corner.

It was really one-way traffic in Turin, as Higuain provided an assist with his cheeky no-look through ball for Ronaldo, who burst away from William Troost-Ekong to fire home.

Higuain forced a corner on the stroke of half-time, from which Merih Demiral knocked it down for Bonucci’s header. The Italian didn’t even have to jump, he simply got in front of De Maio and steered it in at the near post.

Dybala tried again after the restart, his delicate lob kissing the top of the crossbar with Juan Musso beaten.

Gigi Buffon did have a save to make on the hour mark, as Kevin Lasagna’s strike was powerful but central, while Bonucci sprinted back to tackle Lasagna on the counter.

Buffon again had to keep out Lasagna and Seko Fofana, as Juve got tired and stretched out towards the closing stages.

Musso denied Ronaldo a hat-trick, fingertipping his scorcher on to the upright, while Federico Bernardeschi’s finish was too weak to trouble the goalkeeper.

Buffon kept the clean sheet intact with another diving save on Ilija Nestorovski, but he too was beaten deep into stoppages when Ter-Avest’s cross found Ignacio Pussetto relatively unmarked to score from close range.

Juventus: Buffon; Danilo, Bonucci (De Ligt 76), Demiral, De Sciglio; Rabiot, Bentancur, Matuidi; Dybala (Bernardeschi 75), Higuain (Douglas Costa 80), Ronaldo

Udinese: Musso; De Maio, Troost-Ekong, Nuytinck; Ter-Avest, Fofana, Mandragora, De Paul (Walace 67), Stryger-Larsen (Nestorovski 87); Okaka (Pussetto 61), Lasagna

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Parma handed Gennaro Gattuso disappointing Napoli debut as the visitors struck twice to beat the Partenopei through Dejan Kulusevski and Gervinho to run away with a 2-1 win at the Stadio San Paolo..

It was the worst possible start to the Gattuso era. Within five minutes, Kalidou Koulibaly had to stop one dangerous counter-attack, then lost the ball cheaply under pressure from Dejan Kulusevski and injured himself while trying to run after the winger, who scored with a low drive past Alex Meret at the near post.

No sooner had Sebastiano Luperto come on in his place, the young defender did practically the same thing, caught in possession and fortunate Andreas Cornelius picked the wrong pass, or it would’ve been 2-0.

Napoli fought back, but Lorenzo Insigne horribly scuffed the ball from eight yards on a Giovanni Di Lorenzo pull-back.

Parma were also forced into a change, as Cornelius pulled up in agony with a thigh strain, so Mattia Sprocati came on and Kulusevski moved to a False 9 role.

Piotr Zielinski ballooned over the bar after bursting into the box and really should’ve done better, but nothing compared to Insigne who had shaken off a defender on the Arkadiusz Milik through ball only to somehow fire wide from eight yards.

Insigne set up Fabian Ruiz on the edge of the box only for the Spaniard to scuff meekly into the arms of Luigi Sepe. On the other hand, every time Parma went on the counter, they seemed likely to score, Gervinho’s effort fingertipped on to the inside of the upright by Meret just before half-time.

Insigne completed a give-and-go with Milik’s back-heel flick only to again turn off target when relatively undisturbed.

In first half stoppages, the referee pointed to the spot for a Napoli penalty. However, after an on-field review, he saw that if Hernani had accidentally clipped Zielinski’s heel, he did so just outside the area, so the decision was changed to a free kick.

Sepe had to make his first genuine save of the game on 58 minutes, struggling to push an Insigne free kick out of the near top corner, then was behind a Milik header into the ground.

Dries Mertens replaced Allan and made an immediate impact, providing the assist for Milik’s headed equaliser within a minute of coming off the bench. The Belgian cut back inside and looped a ball over the defence for his towering header into the far bottom corner.

It was a Napoli siege, but Parma always dangerous on the counter, as Gervinho slalomed past everyone and looked certain to score from seven yards until Meret stuck out a foot to parry.

Milik only managed to graze a Mario Rui ball across the face of goal, while Mertens had two sudden snapshots that were not far off target at all. Gervinho and Kulusevski were always dangerous on the counter, so it was end to end stuff.

That proved pivotal, because deep into stoppages, a Napoli corner was cleared to set Gervinho running. He combined passes brilliantly with Kulusevski, who split the defence to send the Ivorian one-on-one to prod past Meret. It means Parma now break three points clear of Napoli in the table.

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