And Real Madrid remain relaxed about holding out another year for David de Gea if Ramos' failure to go to United means that the Premier League club refuse to negotiate over the departure of the Spanish goalkeeper.

Real know that De Gea will join them next summer when his contract at United runs out and are relaxed about starting the season with goalkeepers Kiko Casilla and Keylor Navas

With United having relayed the fact that they will not let de Gea unless they get Sergio Ramos, it now leaves executive director Ed Woodward with a dilemma: whether to back down so that the club can at least get around £20million for De Gea now or keep the player and lose him for nothing next summer.

Ramos had been infuriated with Real Madrid, because of press briefings he believed were directed by the club, which had questioned his loyalty when he asked for €10m a year net wages – the equivalent of £13.5m gross in the UK or £260,000 a week.

However, in a meeting in Guangzhou on the club's Chinese tour, Ramos' brother Rene, Ramos himself, Perez and director general Jose Angel Sanchez have restored relationships and it seems that a compromise will be made on a new deal, meaning it is expected to be signed on their return to Madrid with negotiations ongoing in China.

With Angel Di Maria on the verge of leaving for £46m, it is another blow for United in the summer transfer market in which they have made an experienced centre half a priority. 

United do want to sign Argentine centre half Nicolas Otamendi but do not want to meet the £36m asking price, though the player is managed by Jorge Mendes, with whom United have good relations.

(dailymail.co.uk)