{"id":440903,"date":"2026-01-27T14:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440903\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:54:09","slug":"manuel-ugarte-to-follow-casemiro-to-man-utd-exit-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440903\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuel Ugarte to follow Casemiro to Man Utd exit door"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Casemiro\u2019s departure has already been announced, Manchester United are also expected to part ways with Manuel Ugarte.<\/p>\n

The Red Devils splashed around \u00a342 million to sign the holding midfielder from Paris Saint-Germain in the summer of 2024. A few months later, he was surprisingly reunited with his former Sporting Club head coach, Ruben Amorim, who replaced Erik ten Hag in November.<\/p>\n

But while this seemed to be a pleasant coincidence at first sight, it never yielded any benefits for either man. In fact, Amorim reportedly told Ugarte that he was no longer \u2018the same player\u2019<\/a> during a fiery team meeting at the end of last season.<\/p>\n

Manuel Ugarte expected to leave Man United next summer<\/p>\n

Last week, Casemiro announced his departure at the end of the season when his Man Utd deal will expire. But as The Athletic<\/a> reports, the experienced star won\u2019t be the only midfielder who will vacate his spot ahead of the forthcoming overhaul.<\/p>\n

Ugarte\u2019s stats by club
\nAppearance
\nGoals\u00a0
\nAssists<\/p>\n

Sporting CP
\n85
\n1
\n3<\/p>\n

Manchester United
\n63
\n2
\n6<\/p>\n

CA Fenix
\n57
\n2
\n1<\/p>\n

Paris Saint-Germain
\n37
\n0
\n3<\/p>\n

FC Famalicao
\n21
\n1
\n2<\/p>\n

The source believes that Ugarte is likely to leave the club in the summer, especially since Kobbie Mainoo has now regained his starting berth under Michael Carrick, with the club planning to extend his contract.<\/p>\n

Ugarte has been linked with Ajax and Galatasaray<\/a> in recent weeks, but he\u2019s unlikely to leave the club this month. The same applies to Joshua Zirkzee, as the report insists that neither player is close to sealing a January exit.<\/p>\n

Who will replace Casemiro & Ugarte at Man Utd?\"Manuel(Photo by George Wood\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

With Casemiro leaving United and Ugarte potentially following him to the exit door, Man Utd could end up signing multiple midfielders in the summer.<\/p>\n

Director of Football Jason Wilcox and his collaborators have already set a clear hierarchy for their transfer targets, with Elliot Anderson at the top of the shortlist.<\/p>\n

The Nottingham Forest star is thus considered the club\u2019s priority target, while Brighton\u2019s enforcer Carlos Baleba and Crystal Palace\u2019s deep-lying playmaker Adam Wharton are right behind.<\/p>\n

Man Utd\u2019s shortlist certainly includes several other profiles, but it is becoming increasingly evident that the three aforementioned Premier League stars are the club\u2019s main objective for the midfield revamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Casemiro\u2019s departure has already been announced, Manchester United are also expected to part ways with Manuel Ugarte.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-440903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}