Man Utd target hints he is finally open to transfer after snubbing Erik ten Hag twice

Brian Brobbey has named Manchester United as a club he would like to play for in the future - despite the fact he's already rejected the Red Devils twice.

The Ajax striker, 22, came through the academy ranks in Amsterdam and was handed his senior debut by Erik ten Hag back in 2020 and has previously been linked with a move to the Dutchman's current club.

While such a move has not transpired, Brobbey made it clear in a Q&A with the new Dutch edition of Men's Health magazine that he would be open to playing at Old Trafford in the future.

When he was asked to name a foreign club he would like to play for, Brobbey, who claimed he would be worth in excess of responded: "Real Madrid is a great club, but so are Arsenal and Manchester United."

Despite his apparent interest in joining United, Brobbey has previously made no secret of the fact that he has turned down the opportunity to reunite with his former coach in the Premier League.

He admitted that he snubbed United to rejoin Ajax from RB Leipzig in the summer of 2022 after Ten Hag personally reached out in a bid to persuade him to come to Old Trafford. Speaking some months later, Brobbey said: "Erik ten Hag called me and said that at United, my agent would get millions of euros and I could earn a multiple of my Ajax salary,” he explained. “But our decision was clear: we wanted to go to Ajax.

"Manchester United wanted to have me, but I insisted on returning to Ajax. To make that possible, my agent Jose Fortes Rodriguez even waived a hefty percentage of the sell-on clause."

Brobbey was on United's radar again in the January transfer window with Ten Hag in desperate need of firepower. However, the striker made it clear he wasn't interested in such a move before suggesting he doesn't