Manchester United have confirmed midfielder Casemiro will leave the club when his contract expires this summer.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old moved to Old Trafford from Real Madrid in August 2022 for a fee rising to \u00a370m signing a four-year deal with an option for a further season.<\/p>\n
But it is understood that United decided against keeping Casemiro beyond the end of the campaign and have agreed to the player’s request to confirm his summer exit at this time.<\/p>\n
“I will carry Manchester United with me throughout my entire life,” the Brazil international said.<\/p>\n
“From the first day that I walked out at this beautiful stadium, I felt the passion of Old Trafford and the love that I now share with our supporters for this special club.<\/p>\n
“It is not time to say goodbye; there are many more memories to create during the next four months.<\/p>\n
“We still have a lot to fight for together; my complete focus will, as always, remain on giving my everything to help our club to succeed.”<\/p>\n
United sources said that the club\u2019s decision to not extend or renew Casemiro\u2019s deal was made well before Thursday\u2019s announcement as part of their long-term planning.<\/p>\n
The highly-paid midfielder requested that it was made public at this point to avoid inaccurate speculation about his future and allow full focus on the side\u2019s push for a European return.<\/p>\n
United said in a statement: “Supporters will have the opportunity to recognise Casemiro\u2019s contributions at the final home game of the season against Nottingham Forest.”<\/p>\n
Casemiro has scored 21 goals in 146 appearances for United, including putting in an impressive performance in Saturday\u2019s 2-0 derby win over Manchester City in Michael Carrick\u2019s first game in charge.<\/p>\n
The Red Devils sit fifth in the Premier League ahead of Sunday\u2019s trip to leaders Arsenal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United have confirmed midfielder Casemiro will leave the club when his contract expires this summer. The 33-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-258435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}