Aston Villa are monitoring Ibrahim Sangaré, and are on a list of interested clubs that also includes West Ham and Manchester United. Nottingham Forest needs to make at least one major sale and intends to open transfer talks in the €45–50 million range for the player they acquired for around €35 million. According to sources who spoke to CaughtOffside, Manchester United's scouts have been impressed by him, and he has also been tracked by Bayern Munich and Liverpool in the past.