Transfer Joao Felix: The latest Man Utd and Man City advance in a £ 120m battle against Real Madrid

Manchester United and City are involved in a showdown with Real Madrid for Portugal's Joao Felix.

The two Premier League clubs will have scouts in front of Benfica's teenager, Felix, in the Portuguese Nations League semi-final against Switzerland in Porto on Wednesday night.

United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is aiming for the latest sensation in Portuguese football, as he begins rebuilding his team after a disappointing season.

But he faces fierce competition from Real, who is desperately trying to conquer the teenager Benfica, City and the Italian giants Juventus.

Benfica wants about 120 million pounds sterling and Real has already seen an offer of purchase of about 80 million pounds rejected.

But they should now use Benfica's interest in goalkeeper Keylor Navas to try to win a contract next week after the final.

Felix, 19, has scored 18 goals in 33 games for Benfica this season and became the youngest player to score a hat-trick in the Europa League since Sergio Aguero, who scored three goals against Eintracht Frankfurt in April.

The teenager is about to make his debut in Portugal against the Swiss in Porto after being summoned to the final by his coach Fernando Santos.

And the Portuguese City star, Bernardo Silva, has launched Felix a "brilliant career" while Manchester City interested him more.

Bernardo, 24, said: "Felix is ​​very young, he has a huge margin of progression and he showed that he was working, and if he was making the right choices in his career, he could do a brilliant career.

"So he could play for the best clubs in the world and be part of a group that few players can reach."

Super agent Jorge Mendes represents the three triple winners Bernardo and Felix.

Bernardo thinks that Felix and Bruno Fernandes, from Sporting Lisbon, also linked to City, are able to take over in the best European clubs this summer.

"I think these are players who have shown in our league (Portuguese) that they have a lot of quality and that they could maybe go into leagues with more competitive clubs, without being critical to regarding our league and our clubs. "

Meanwhile, Portuguese Sports Minister Joao Paulo Rebelo called the Benfica youth barracks a "******* fans" at Portugal's training camp in Espinho on Sunday.

The rival supporters of Porto hit the roof of the car of the teenager's parents when she arrived at training camp and booed her.

The minister said: "It was a ******* behavior of one, two or a handful of people who do not represent the support that the country gives our players, especially when they wear the jersey. Portugal. I do not doubt that.

Portuguese defender Pepe denied that his team was the favorite to win the tournament this week, while he was at home, saying: "We are candidates, not favorites."

England will face the Netherlands on Thursday and the Portuguese are the only of the four teams in the finals of the League of Nations to have had no player involved in the Champions League or Champions League finals last week.

But Pepe said: "For my part, I was in the final of the Portuguese Cup last week and after a few days of rest, I had to change the" chip "for a new competition. But we defend our country, we do not have to apologize for it. We have enough quality. "