Reds told don’t sign up Milinkovic-Savic

UNITED have been warned against signing Sergej Milinkovic-Savic by a Serbian football scout.

United were heavily linked with a move for the Lazio midfielder in the summer transfer window, but did not show any formal interest in the 23-year-old.

M.E.N. Sport reported in May that Jose Mourinho’s side had discounted the dynamic midfielder as a potential transfer signing since he was too expensive.

Speaking in August, Lazio president Claudio Lotito suggested it would take a world-record fee for any team to sign their star midfielder.

Milinkovic-Savic has experienced a difficult start to the new season, in which his performances have been so poor that Lazio fans took a banner to their game against Fiorentina which read “Milinkovic and Luis Alberto [are] fake talents only hunting cash!”

It looks like United might have dodged a bullet by not signing Milinkovic-Savic in the summer and Serbian football scout Goran Milosavljevic does not think the Serbia international is ready for a move to English football.

“I don’t think so. I think maybe in a few years. At the moment he is not ready, he doesn’t have enough quality,” he said. “He played at the World Cup and his price went down because of his performance. Physically and quickthinking need work. He also needs to work when his team doesn’t have the ball. Steven Gerrard played in the same position and he ran 14km for a game with many sprints.”