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The player’s potential availability has alerted the Premier League trio of United, Chelsea and Tottenham, who would be keen to pick the talented youngster up for a compensation fee that could be as low as £300,000.
There is interest from abroad as well, with Bundesliga duo Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig also in the frame.
The developer of a £1.9bn regeneration project in the centre of Birmingham said it was stepping back from the construction phase of its UK projects.
The Smithfield development is a joint partnership between Lendlease, a global real estate group, and Birmingham City Council.
It was due to bring thousands of new homes, businesses and open spaces to the site of the city’s former wholesale markets by 2035.
But Lendlease said it was “refocusing” on its strongest market, Australia, and would look for investors for the construction of its projects in the UK that would historically have been funded with its own money.
