{"id":603402,"date":"2026-05-25T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603402\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:34:09","slug":"man-united-transfer-news-live-huge-tonali-update-new-ederson-agreement-leao-bargain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603402\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United transfer news LIVE: Huge Tonali update, new Ederson agreement, Leao bargain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Remember Turki Al-Sheikh? The man who once posted a cryptic message on X suggesting Manchester United were in an &#8216;advanced stage&#8217; of a takeover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He said: &#8220;The best news I heard today is that Manchester United is now in an advanced stage of completing a deal to sell to a new investor. I hope he&#8217;s better than the previous owners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He later clarified he was not the &#8216;new investor&#8217;, but now he now wants to buy Derby County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/sport\/football\/article\/saudi-boxing-chief-turki-al-sheikh-makes-bid-for-derby-county-5fhtx82kf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">The Times<\/a> is reporting that the EFL and the Independent Football Regulator are aware of Turki Al-Sheikh\u2019s interest in the Championship club, but both organisations declined to comment when approached by them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Al-Sheikh is a government minister in Saudi Arabia\u2019s royal court and is the man behind Saudi Arabia\u2019s takeover of boxing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Turki-Al-Sheikh\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0_Turki-Al-Sheikh.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Turki-Al-Sheikh\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Turki-Al-Sheikh(Image: Richard Pelham\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remember Turki Al-Sheikh? The man who once posted a cryptic message on X suggesting Manchester United were in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,21940,1441,1465,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-603402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-football-blog","tag-manchester-united-fc","tag-manchester-united-transfer-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603402","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=603402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}