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Alessia Russo was portion of the England squad that won the European Championship past summerManchester United manager Marc Skinner is "very hopeful" England striker Alessia Russo volition motion a caller declaration to stay astatine the nine adjacent season.
Russo's existent woody astatine United expires this summertime and she turned down a declaration extension successful June.
"I volition effort everything successful our powerfulness to bash so. There are ever factors successful it. I don't fell things," said Skinner.
"There's decidedly parts we request to enactment retired but really I deliberation she has a existent emotion for this nine and we person a existent emotion for her.
"I would beryllium precise hopeful and we're going to effort to enactment disconnected the tract to bash that. But connected the tract Alessia and I volition proceed to enactment towards this club's success."
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United are apical of the Women's Super League and 3 points up of third-placed Arsenal.
Russo, 23, has scored 5 times successful 9 WSL appearances this play and is escaped to speech to different clubs extracurricular of England arsenic she has less than six months remaining connected her contract.
Asked if helium had spoken to Russo since Tuesday's deadline, Skinner said: "I spoke with Alessia this greeting and we had a truly bully meeting, truly positive.
"She has a large cognition and is precisely the benignant of idiosyncratic we are looking to support here, support having negotiations with and support conversations astir that.
"She wants to triumph here. I can't talk immoderate much highly of her attitude. She conscionable gets connected with her job. We had a bully infinitesimal this morning, had a bully gathering and she trained truly good this morning."
Skinner besides said it was "huge" for United's rubric situation to support Russo for the remainder of the season.
"What's wide from this model is that arsenic Manchester United we don't privation to beryllium a selling club," helium added.
"We privation to beryllium a squad that builds to effort and propulsion for titles. We're a nine that has fierce ambition."
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