Baines created 116 chances for team-mates last season – more than any other player in Europe’s top five leagues

Manchester United have made a £12 million bid for Leighton Baines as David Moyes looks to reunite with the Everton and England left back at Old Trafford.

Baines, about to enter the final two years of his contract at Goodison Park, said this week that he was looking forward to working under Roberto Martinez, Moyes’s successor as Everton manager, but United’s approach is certain to turn his head.

Bill Kenwright, the Everton chairman, has spoken on several occasions in recent weeks about his determination to keep the club’s reigning Player of the Year and has indicated that they hope to tie the 28-year-old to a new long-term contract this summer.

But Baines, who has admitted publicly that he has been flattered by United’s interest in