Derby County manager Wayne Rooney has admitted that he tried to sign youngster Amad Diallo from Manchester United on a season-long loan last summer but unfortunately the move did not materialize. According to Rooney, he found the need to bolster his attacking options at the club and tried to convince Ivory Coast international attacker Diallo to join the Rams in the summer transfer window, but he has also stated that he still regrets that the deal did not happen eventually. Diallo was signed by Olé Gunnar Solksjaer for Manchester United several months ago from Italian Serie A side Atalanta but the forward has found games hard to come by at Old Trafford.

In the same summer transfer window that Rooney says he tried to sign the player, there was also a concrete interest for him from Netherlands Eredivisie League side PSV Eindhoven. The Dutch Football Club made it clear that they would like to take the player on loan and have him spend the rest of the season at the club. However, the deal broke down even though the parties involved had already established an agreement after several days of negotiation. The deal could not go ahead because Diallo eventually picked up a regrettable ankle injury in training so he was forced to sit the transfer out even though he would have loved to seal the move.

He remained at Old Trafford and continued his rehabilitation process. When the January winter transfer window came by, it was another opportunity for him to find another club and of course, offers still came in for him. Scottish Premiership giants Rangers tabled an offer to United to take the player on loan and everything was agreed and sealed so he joined the side where he will spend the rest of the season.