Manchester United target preparing to join Southampton in January

Ronald Koeman is making an audacious bid to bring Wesley Sneijder to Southampton.
The World Cup star is one of several Galatasaray players to have had issues with the club over their pay in recent weeks.
And the cash-strapped Istanbul side are now seeking to get the former Real Madrid and Inter Milan play-maker off their wage bill.

Sneijder, currently on £50,000 a week net, shares an agent, Guido Albers, with fellow Dutchman Koeman, and the Saints are ready to back their new manager after seeing a sensational start to the season followed by five consecutive defeats – including a Capital One Cup quarter-final loss to League One Sheffield United.
The 30-year-old, who scored against Arsenal in the Champions League last week, was repeatedly linked to Manchester United before signing a three-and-a-half year deal with Galatasaray in January 2013.
The Dutchman replaced David Beckham at Real Madrid in 2007 and then won the Champions League with Jose Mourinho’s Inter in 2010.

He is understood to have earned £25milion net in the last five years and is willing to be realistic about any wage demands in the Premier League.