Arsenal are set to do battle with Manchester United to sign Jerome Boateng from Bayern Munich, Kicker believes.

The Bundesliga champions have put a €50m (£44.5m) price tag on the centre-back, who is also wanted by Paris Saint-Germain.

Boateng, a six-time Bundesliga winner with Bayern, is no stranger to the Premier League, having spent a year at Manchester City earlier in his career.

Arsenal are looking to offload Calum Chambers to Fulham, Lucas Perez to West Ham and Danny Welbeck to either Newcastle or Everton to help finance the move for the Germany defender and Kicker believes they have already contacted the player to see if he’d be tempted to move to north London.

United, meanwhile, are also in the hunt for a new defender and are believed to have made Toby Alderweireld their No 1 priority.