{"id":319855,"date":"2025-12-02T05:09:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/319855\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:09:18","slug":"man-utd-offered-31m-opportunity-by-hostile-serie-a-agent-to-right-landmark-2024-transfer-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/319855\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd offered \u00a331m ‘opportunity’ by hostile Serie A agent to right landmark 2024 transfer wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the summer of 2024 and there are innumerable reports surrounding Manchester United\u2019s chase of Manuel Ugarte, featuring\u00a0long lists of alternatives as Paris Saint-Germain refuse to budge from their \u20ac60m valuation in\u00a0the midfield filling to the Red Devils\u2019 doughnut<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They need an upgrade on Scott McTominay, who\u2019s consistently proved himself not quite good enough for a club that still stands alone as The Greatest In English Football History, and for Casemiro, who\u2019s just been told to \u201cleave the football before the football leaves you\u201d by Jamie Carragher.<\/p>\n

Names are put forward, but all pale in comparison to a man who\u2019s who\u2019s not good enough for PSG but is still very good (promise), as proven by him thriving at Sporting under a manager not yet attractive enough to unseat Erik ten Hag at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

Burnley\u2019s Sander Berge and Wolves\u2019 Joao Gomes are on their radar, but chief among the alternatives is Atalanta star Ederson<\/a>. If only the Serie A side weren\u2019t asking for just as much as PSG want for an evidently superior midfielder in Ugarte.<\/p>\n

In quite the catalogue of midfield recriminations at Manchester United, the summer of 2024 is a doozy. Pushing McTominay to Napoli for him to be named Serie A MVP while winning the Scudetto and signing Ugarte in his stead is extraordinarily poor judgement by their own extraordinarily low standards.<\/p>\n

Eventually PSG dropped their price for Ugarte to what was at the time thought to be a \u20ac50m bargain but has since proven to be a gross overpayment for a footballer who\u2019s at best a midfield passenger rather than the fighter the United hierarchy were hoping for, and more often than not an ally to opposition teams in their routine bypassing of the Red Devils midfield.<\/p>\n

But United have now been offered an opportunity to right that landmark wrong and sign Ederson, albeit a glimmer of one owing to the Brazilian\u2019s almost comically bolshy agent making no bones about the preferred destination for his client, whose contract expires in 2027.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity because his contract is expiring,\u201d Andre Cury said. \u201cHis side didn\u2019t want to sell him despite very high offers. I think they will do it in this January window or in the summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cAtalanta were asking for a lot of money, between 60 and 75 million euros, but now his contract is almost up, they could even halve the price, between 30 and 40 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a spectacular player with some of the best statistics in Europe for his position.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m friends with Deco and the Barcelona president. I do my job. I will always help them with transfers because I have a very special affection for Barcelona.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A man claiming \u201cI do my job\u201d before immediately revealing he \u201cwill always help\u201d Barcelona with transfers is someone very evidently not doing his job of working on the best outcome for his client. But that, along with this pretty grim come-and-get-me-plea 18 months out from Ederson\u2019s contract expiry, suggests Cury could perhaps be encouraged (if you catch our drift) to vote in favour of a move to Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

And at, say, \u20ac35m [\u00a331m], Ederson would be well worth the outlay for a football club currently regretting him being the alternative rather than the top target 18 months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the summer of 2024 and there are innumerable reports surrounding Manchester United\u2019s chase of Manuel Ugarte, featuring\u00a0long…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,79401,700,2680,87642,44,561,82,4390],"class_list":{"0":"post-319855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-f365-says","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-manchester-united","13":"tag-manuel-ugarte","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-soccer","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}