{"id":254674,"date":"2025-11-10T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254674\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:16:08","slug":"agent-explains-manchester-united-efforts-to-hijack-aston-villa-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254674\/","title":{"rendered":"Agent explains Manchester United efforts to hijack Aston Villa transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amadou Onana\u2019s agent Melissa Onana says the midfielder snubbed Manchester United to join Aston Villa in July 2024.<\/p>\n

The Belgium international first arrived in the UK when Everton signed him from Lille in August 2022. He impressed for the Toffees, and his performances attracted interest from a few Premier League sides.<\/p>\n

In July 2024, we covered claims from Belgium<\/a> that Manchester United made a serious attempt to hijack Amadou\u2019s signing from Aston Villa\u2019s clutches. That information appeared to be coming from the player\u2019s camp.<\/p>\n

His sister, Melissa, who is also his agent, has now spoken at length to Belgian journalist Sacha Tavolieri. Walfoot<\/a> have relayed her comments about Manchester United\u2019s late attempt and why the 24-year-old snubbed the Red Devils in favour of Unai Emery\u2019s side.<\/p>\n

According to the representative, the former Toffees man\u2019s move to Aston Villa was well advanced. Manchester United then made an approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cAston Villa\u2019s sporting project was crystal clear. It was a project where Amadou could continue to develop. We spoke with the sporting director, and the salary was also attractive, let\u2019s not kid ourselves,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Euros were coming up, Amadou was performing well, and we finalised the deal. Then, Manchester United entered the picture. But I had already given my word to Aston Villa.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew very well that Manchester would be able to offer better financial terms, but we had already given our word to Aston Villa, and the project was a good fit. The style of football played, the club\u2019s ambition: Amadou felt right at home there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The midfielder has played 43 matches for Aston Villa, of which nine are from this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amadou Onana\u2019s agent Melissa Onana says the midfielder snubbed Manchester United to join Aston Villa in July 2024.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-254674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}