The Borussia Dortmund defender opted to head for Germany rather than England in January, but he intends to make his way to Old Trafford at some stage <\/p>\n
Borussia Dortmund defender Manuel Akanji has opened the door to a future transfer to Manchester United by airing his ambition to one day grace the pitch at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n
The Switzerland international was linked with the Red Devils during the January transfer window, but ended up completing a \u20ac22 million (\u00a319m\/$25m) switch to Germany .<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old has impressed in the Bundesliga and is considered to have another big-money move in him at some stage.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n Akanji hopes that such a switch will take him to England, with a boyhood United supporter eager to experience life in the Premier League.<\/p>\n He told Bluewin <\/em> : “Many know that Manchester United has been my favourite club since childhood. It would be nice to play there, but that’s not an issue right now.<\/p>\n “I am very satisfied in Dortmund. I want to win titles with BVB and compete in many more big tournaments with the Swiss national team.”<\/p>\n United remain in the market for defensive additions after failing to bolster their ranks in that department over the summer.<\/p>\n Akanji may be a solution to those problems, but prising him out of a four-and-a-half-year contract at Dortmund will be difficult at this stage.<\/p>\n That is likely to force Jose Mourinho to look elsewhere, with any move for a Swiss star having to be put on hold as he chases down other targets in Germany.<\/p>\n \u201cI always want to go higher, as far as possible,\u201d added Akanji.<\/p>\n \u201cBut planning the future is difficult.\u00a0You never know what will happen.<\/p>\n \u201cThe most important thing is to stay healthy.\u00a0The short-term goal for the club is to consolidate in the Champions League and to continue playing well in the Bundesliga.<\/p>\n \u201cThere will be setbacks along the way.\u00a0Life does not always go upwards, but also downwards, not just in football.\u00a0I will try to be a good person on and off the field.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Borussia Dortmund defender opted to head for Germany rather than England in January, but he intends to make his way to Old Trafford at some stage Borussia Dortmund defender Manuel Akanji has opened the door to a future transfer to Manchester United by airing his ambition to one day grace the pitch at Old…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n