{"id":379887,"date":"2025-12-31T18:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379887\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:17:08","slug":"rasmus-hojlund-permanent-napoli-move-a-formality-says-sporting-director-giovanni-manna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379887\/","title":{"rendered":"Rasmus Hojlund permanent Napoli move a &#8216;formality&#8217;, says sporting director Giovanni Manna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Striker Rasmus Hojlund completing his permanent transfer from Manchester United to Napoli is a &#8220;formality&#8221;, says their sporting director Giovanni Manna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old, who joined Manchester in a \u00a372m deal from Atalanta in 2023, has scored nine goals since his season-long loan move to the Serie A champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this month, Hojlund posted a picture after winning the Italian Super Cup with the caption: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cvgrzyd4rv4t#:~:text=Manchester%20United%20striker%20Rasmus%20Hojlund,Cup%20in%20Riyadh%2C%20Saudi%20Arabia.\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What a great decision looks like.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When asked if Hojlund&#8217;s permanent Napoli transfer was just a &#8220;formality,&#8221; Manna replied: &#8220;As of today, I think so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In an interview with Italian publication Corriere dello Sport, he said: &#8220;We did everything we could to sign him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There were more storied clubs interested, but his will was crucial, and we are proud of it.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Striker Rasmus Hojlund completing his permanent transfer from Manchester United to Napoli is a &#8220;formality&#8221;, says their sporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-379887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379887","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=379887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}