Ryan Giggs has urged Michael Carrick to sign Adam Wharton this summer, claiming that the Crystal Palace midfielder already ‘looks like a Manchester United player’.

United are in the market to sign a new central midfielder this summer with Casemiro due to leave Old Trafford at the end of the season.

Giggs believes Wharton, who is valued at £70 million by Palace, should be one of United’s priorities in the summer window but insists his former club should sign two midfielders, with Elliot Anderson from Nottingham Forest a prime candidate.

‘First of all we’ve got to deal with our players who have gone out on loan, Rashford, Sancho, Hojlund, we’ve got all them to deal with, but the priority is definitely midfield, I can see definitely two,’ Giggs said in an interview with Webby & O’Neill.

‘It looks like Mainoo is going to stay, Casemiro is going to go, Ugarte is going to go, and we need to strengthen midfield without a shadow of a doubt.

‘I always like a left-footer in the team so I wouldn’t argue with Wharton, I think he looks, to me, like a Man United player.

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