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title: "PSG eye up Manchester United defender"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/psg-eye-up-manchester-united-defender/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Aidan McCartney"
section: "Ligue 1 News"
published: "2012-12-07T16:45:23Z"
modified: "2012-12-07T16:45:23Z"
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# PSG eye up Manchester United defender

![](https://cdn.footballtransfertavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/patrice_evra-150x150.jpg)[Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/psg-line-up-5m-bid-to-bring-evra-back-home-8390706.html) journalist Ian Herbert has set tongues wagging in the Football Transfer Tavern this evening after reporting that [Patrice Evra](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/tag/patrice-evra/) could be set to leave Old Trafford to return to France with [Paris Saint Germain](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/tag/psg/).

It was thought that [Ashley Cole](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/tag/ashley-cole/) was the player that PSG wanted to resolve their left-back issue but Herbert confirms over a game of darts with the locals that countryman Evra has been elevated to the top of their wanted list.

The 31-year-old French international is a boyhood fan of the Paris-based club and is thought to be keen on the opportunity to move onto a even larger salary at Qatar funded side.

Any forthcoming transfer would probably suit both parties with United pocketing a reported £5 million for the left back whose form has been inconsistent of late while Evra could finish his career back in his home country.

United would have to find a straight replacement for the left-back with neither Fabio or summer signing Alexander Buttner showing anything near the form required to start for the Old Trafford outfit but this may be a rumour that picks up the pace as the transfer window approaches.

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