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Manchester United are set to announce the £59.7m signing of Argentina winger Angel Di Maria on Tuesday.

The fee for the Real Madrid star - who the MEN revealed was a Reds target last month - is a new club and British record buy.

The coup of securing the 26-year-old Champions League winner will take Louis van Gaal’s summer spending - already at an all-time high - to a Reds' record £120m.

Di Maria was smuggled away from Manchester Airport in a club car late on Monday night - barely visible in the back seat - before being taken to United’s Carrington training ground.

After completing a medical he was set to sign a five-year deal.

It is a huge boost for the Reds to land a player who was named as UEFA’s Man of the Match in last May’s 4-1 Champions League final triumph for Real over Madrid rivals Atletico.

The last time United smashed the British record was 12 years ago when they bought Rio Ferdinand from Leeds United in July 2002 for £30m.

But Di Maria’s capture will cost almost double that with United appearing to win the brief stand-off with Real over a player they valued at £75m, but who wanted to leave the Bernabeu after the arrivals of James Rodriguez and Toni Kroos.