{"id":415830,"date":"2026-02-09T06:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/415830\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T06:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:12:08","slug":"man-united-table-34-million-bid-for-real-madrid-defender-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/415830\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United table \u00a334 million bid for Real Madrid defender | Shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United\u2019s fine start to life under Michael Carrick continued on Saturday as they beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-0. <\/p>\n<p>Goals from Bryan Mbeumo and Bruno Fernandes earned Carrick a fourth successive victory since taking charge last month, with Spurs reduced to ten men in the first half when centre-back Cristian Romero was dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>United now sit fourth in the top flight table and are on courser to qualify for next season\u2019s Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Although Carrick was only appointed as caretaker head coach at Old Trafford, the ex England midfielder is quickly building a fine reputation and may have positioned himself well to be given the role on a permanent basis.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, it has emerged that the Manchester club are eyeing a move for a La Liga defender.<\/p>\n<p>According to Spanish outlet Fichajes, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/manchester-united\/eder-militao-manchester-united-real-madrid-transfer-casemiro-u-turn-rio-ferdinand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TEAMtalk<\/a>, Manchester United have made an offer of around \u00a334 million for Real Madrid defender Eder Militao.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shoot.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3DA547M-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127531\" class=\"size-large wp-image-127531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/3DA547M-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-127531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Militao has emerged as a target for Manchester United (Photo: PressInPhoto Sports Agency\/Alamy)<\/p>\n<p>The report claims that the Manchester outfit have identified the Brazil international as a possible transfer target as they look to bolster their squad, and an opening offer has already been made.<\/p>\n<p>Militao, 28, has played 189 times for Real since joining the Spanish giants from Portuguese outfit Porto back in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian is widely regarded as one of the most reliable central defenders in Spain, but it is claimed that Real are \u2018considering\u2019 United\u2019s offer for the player.<\/p>\n<p>Militao is currently sidelined with a muscle problem, and has had several lengthy injury problems in recent years including two ACL tears.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, the report suggests that Man United are keen to add the Brazil international to their ranks this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The defender\u2019s contract with Real Madrid is set to run until the end of the 2027\/28 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United\u2019s fine start to life under Michael Carrick continued on Saturday as they beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-0.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-415830","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\/415830","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=415830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}