With just days of the window left, United move to beat City and Chelsea to £30m Shaw and Wenger opens up talks on top target Draxler... and who was Jose mocking?

Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea are all hovering around the left back - who could yet break into England’s World Cup squad.

Tottenham are also very keen to land Shaw, but given the size of his fee is now likely to exceed £30million that could put Spurs out of the equation.

Although Southampton’s reluctant owner Katharina Liebherr has vowed not to sell any players during the transfer window in the wake of the departure of chief executive Nicola Cortese, a bid of over £30m would be hard to resist - especially if the player was loaned back until the end of the season.

City have indicated they don’t want to do any big business in this window while Chelsea say their activities are over.

But both clubs could agree a buy and lease back deal.

United, who are embarking on massive rebuilding, would love to get in first.

The previous highest fee paid for a defender was the £29m United paid Leeds in 2001 for Rio Ferdinand.