French club Lyon has hinted that they will be interested in swop exchange involving their midfielder Mahamadou Diarra and Ruud van Nistelrooy.

Manchester United has been interested in Diarra for a while and Lyon is believed to have set an asking price of £25million pounds for the midfielder.

"It is sure Lyon are interested in Van Nistelrooy," Bernard Lacombe told the Daily Star.

"For the moment we have not officially negotiated with Manchester. It will be a complicated financial deal unless we can exchange one of our players they are interested in, like Diarra."

Ruud is believed to be on his way out after rumours of rift between him and Sir Alex Ferguson.

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