Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been given the green light to break the club's transfer record this summer in his search for a new defender.
United have been linked with a number of high-profile names over the last few years but have instead opted to sign players outside of Europe's biggest clubs, such as Victor Lindelöf from Benfica and Eric Bailly from Villarreal.
The Evening Standard reports that executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward has already given Solskjaer assurances that he'll be backed during the summer transfer window.
The decision from Manchester United to make a sudden U-turn on their policy of signing defenders over the last few years is understood to have come as a result of Liverpool's success following the arrival of Virgil van Dijk.