Gary Neville names Liverpool star he would sign first for Man Utd this summer

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Carrick was appointed on a permanent basis in May (Picture: Getty) Neville ‘would take’ Liverpool star Gravenberch at Old Trafford (Picture: Getty) The former Manchester United and England right-back said: ‘There’s a few but it’s harder because Wirtz isn’t exactly jumping out at me, Isak isn’t jumping out at me, Ekitike yeah, Dominik Szoboszlai maybe… ‘I’d go with Gravenberch. If you said to me, “United, now, who would I take?”, I’d take Gravenberch probably. ‘He’s the best of the three midfielders that United would need and we need a midfielder desperately.’ United spent big on Mbeumo, Sesko and Cunha last summer (Picture: Getty) While Neville said Liverpool’s frontline have ‘potential’, he wouldn’t take any of the club’s current crop of attackers over the likes of Mbeumo and Cunha.

He added: ‘The [Liverpool] forwards are good but I wouldn’t probably swap them over Mbeumo, Cunha, Bruno, Amad… I don’t think I’d be jumping at taking any of them. ‘I think they’ve got potential to go and do brilliant things but they’ve not proved it yet so I’d go with Gravenberch.’ Neville says he would have relished the chance to play for Klopp (Picture: Getty) In a separate question, Neville was asked which manager in world football he would most like to have played under, to which he immediately replied: ‘[Jurgen] Klopp. Mad. ‘For five or six years you couldn’t help but admire the team that I dislike the most, the team that I don’t want to win. ‘Every time you went and watched Liverpool it was a proper game of football, you knew they weren’t holding back and you knew they were going to go for it.

If you think of the three, the two full-backs and [Virgil] van Dijk, [Andy] Robertson at his peak, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Van Dijk and then you had [Joel] Matip or someone… but they were three brilliant defenders and Alisson was the best goalkeeper in the world. ‘So for me, the style of football, the personality of Klopp, yeah, I’d say Klopp.’ Klopp is reportedly in talks to succeed Naglesmann as Germany boss (Picture: Getty) Klopp is reportedly being lined up by the German national team to replace Julian Nagelsmann in the wake of the side’s shock World Cup exit at the hands of Paraguay.Asked if Klopp as what it takes to make Germany successful once again, Neville replied: ‘The thing is about international football is you’ve got a fixed pool of players that you can pick from whereas with clubs you can sign players from different nationalities. ‘I wouldn’t say [club management] is easy but you’ve obviously got the pick of the world, you can go and sign players from everywhere, whereas with Germany, if they haven’t got a good crop coming through and they haven’t got a good talent base for the next four or fives years then there’s nothing he can do really. ‘They’ve got some decent players. You look at Wirtz, Musiala, Havertz, they had four or five, but are they really [top level]. ‘You look at the French and look at that four they have and then look at the German four, they’re a level below. ‘I look at England’s front players like Saka and Foden and Palmer and Kane and Rogers and Bellingham, and I think our players are better than Germany’s. ‘You can never write Germany off just because we’ve got their history of seeing them win but I wouldn’t be thinking he’s going to go in there and be able to get [them firing]. ‘Look at Carlo Ancelotti and Brazil and they weren’t quite right.