Manchester United have reportedly missed out on 19 year old midfielder Patrick Zabi, who is poised to seal a switch to Paris FC. According to French reports, United were amongst a clutch of top European clubs monitoring the Stade de Reims midfielder.<\/p>\n
However, the Ligue 1 outfit have emerged victorious in the race for his signature in a deal valued at \u20ac25million (\u00a321.5m), with the transfer set to be completed in the summer. Zabi has earned considerable praise since making his senior debut as an 18-year-old last February, going on to rack up 24 first-team appearances, netting twice and registering three assists. L’Equipe<\/a> claims Paris pipped United and fellow Premier League sides Newcastle<\/a> and Bournemouth to secure his services.<\/p>\n The youngster also attracted attention from Italian trio Inter Milan, AC Milan and Fiorentina. Whilst his next destination has yet to be officially confirmed, the report suggests it’s merely a formality.<\/p>\n Journalist Sascha Tavolieri indicated that an intervention from Jurgen Klopp<\/a> influenced Zabi’s decision to agree terms with the French side, who currently occupy 14th position in France’s top division.<\/p>\n Paris, who are based just a stone’s throw from reigning French champions and Champions League holders Paris Saint-Germain, were acquired by the Arnault family in 2024, who topped the list of the world’s wealthiest billionaires in the same year.<\/p>\n The deal included a minority stake for Red Bull<\/a>, overseen by former Liverpool<\/a> boss Jurgen Klopp. The German has transitioned into an advisory position as their Head of Global Soccer, where he assists in their expansion and progress.<\/p>\n Consequently, it has been suggested the former manager has been instrumental in beating the likes of United and Newcastle to secure his services. As the transfer window drew to a close, United interim boss Michael Carrick kept the door ajar for potential new arrivals, despite his temporary position.<\/p>\n He said: “To be honest, we’re just working through it. Never say never, of course because a lot can happen and situations can be thrown up sometimes.<\/p>\n “Sometimes it’s something that’s out of our control that we’ve got to deal with. We’re calm. We’ve shown what we’re capable of doing as a team and we’ll just have to see what the next few days bring, but I’m calm about it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United have reportedly missed out on 19 year old midfielder Patrick Zabi, who is poised to seal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,2629,83054,151689,349,1441,1465,92658,151688,101,1114,567,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-407545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-jurgen-klopp","tag-man-united-news","tag-man-united-patrick-zabi","tag-manchester-united","tag-manchester-united-fc","tag-manchester-united-transfer-news","tag-paris-fc","tag-patrick-zabi","tag-sports","tag-transfer-news-section","tag-transfer-window","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407545","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=407545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}