{"id":539641,"date":"2026-07-08T18:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/539641\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:16:08","slug":"man-utd-agree-deal-with-chelsea-for-brazilian-midfielder-andrey-santos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/539641\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd agree deal with Chelsea for Brazilian midfielder Andrey Santos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester United have agreed a \u00a350m deal with Chelsea for their Brazilian midfielder Andrey Santos.<\/p>\n

The deal has progressed quickly in the past few hours after United made their interest known over the weekend.<\/p>\n

United will pay an initial \u00a348m for Santos, with an additional \u00a32m in what are described as ‘achievable’ add-ons. Chelsea have also negotiated a 10% sell-on clause.<\/p>\n

Santos has been cleared for a medical, with fellow countryman Ederson<\/a> also scheduled to have one before completing his \u00a335m move from Italian side Atalanta following Brazil’s elimination from the World Cup.<\/p>\n

The news comes as United’s senior players prepare to return for pre-season training on Thursday and goes part way to addressing what was becoming a major issue.<\/p>\n

United prioritised central midfield this summer following the exit of Casemiro when the veteran former Real Madrid man’s contract came to an end. Manuel Ugarte <\/a>was set to be sold but the Uruguay international has been ruled out for an extended period with cruciate knee ligament damage.<\/p>\n

However, their hopes of signing Elliot Anderson from Nottingham Forest faded when it became apparent it would cost in excess of \u00a3110m.<\/p>\n

United turned their attention to West Ham’s Mateus Fernandes but he joined Tottenham instead after the north London outfit offered a guaranteed \u00a385m.<\/p>\n

With Kobbie Mainoo still at the World Cup with England, United faced opening their pre-season campaign against Wrexham in Helsinki on 18 July with Mason Mount as the only recognised senior midfielder in Michael Carrick’s squad.<\/p>\n

Santos is set to become Chelsea’s third significant departure of the summer after Marc Cucurella was sold to Real Madrid and Tyrique George left for Everton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United have agreed a \u00a350m deal with Chelsea for their Brazilian midfielder Andrey Santos. The deal has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-539641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539641","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=539641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}