Paris St-Germain and Chelsea have joined Sheffield United in the chase for Manchester United’s highly-rated young goalkeeper, Dean Henderson.

Henderson’s impressive form on loan at Sheffield United has created a dilemma for Manchester United with a number of clubs now watching the 22-year-old’s development with close interest.

Henderson is contracted at Old Trafford until June 2022, and United have an option to extend that deal by another 12 months, but he wants to play after establishing him as one of Europe’s most promising goalkeepers over the past 18 months and is unlikely to settle for a place on the substitutes’ bench.

With David de Gea signing a new four-year contract with United last September and Argentina international goalkeeper, Sergio Romero, as the Spaniard’s understudy, Henderson’s prospects of starting regularly under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer are limited.

It leaves United open to an approach for Henderson, who is attracting interest from PSG and Chelsea following an impressive second season on loan at Bramall Lane.

Sheffield United want to take Henderson on loan for a third successive season but, while the South Yorkshire club have held preliminary talks with their Manchester counterparts, manager Chris Wilder has yet to be given a firm indication about Solskjaer’s plans for Henderson. They are hoping to get a clearer idea later next month about United’s intentions.

Wilder’s side have the second best defensive record in the Premier League behind runaway leaders Liverpool and Henderson has kept nine clean sheets. His form has caught the attention of England manager, Gareth Southgate, ahead of Euro 2020 and, at a time when the country’s established No 1, Jordan Pickford, is struggling at Everton, there is a growing clamour for Henderson to be given a first senior international start.

Like PSG, Chelsea are assessing their goalkeeping options with the form of £72 million goalkeeper, Kepa Arrizabalaga, a concern for manager Frank Lampard. Willy Caballero has been preferred to Arrizabalaga for Chelsea’s past two matches.

Meanwhile, Harry Maguire has admitted United must improve at defending set-plays. Only Aston Villa and Everton have conceded more goals from set-pieces in the Premier League this season than the 11 shipped by United. Maguire believes there has been a general improvement in United’s defence but admits they must sharpen up when defending free-kicks and corners.

“We’ve been poor from set-plays with our defending and we’ve had a couple of great goals scored against us from outside the box, but we haven’t really been having games where David [de Gea] has had to make five or six saves, apart from maybe the Carabao Cup second leg against [Manchester] City, when David was brilliant.”