{"id":735406,"date":"2026-08-12T07:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/735406\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T07:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:56:11","slug":"man-united-transfer-news-live-iliman-ndiaye-claim-14m-offer-readied-louis-page-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/735406\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United transfer news LIVE: Iliman Ndiaye claim, \u00a314m offer readied, Louis Page deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Scholes believes Manchester United must make a move for Tottenham Hotspur defender Cristian Romero. The Argentine looks set to make a move to Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n

However, Scholes thinks the Tottenham captain would be an ideal signing for United. Speaking on the Good, the Bad and the Football podcast, Scholes said: “You might laugh at this. I’ll get a lot of stick for this. A centre-half I’d go and get now… Cristian Romero from Tottenham. I know he’s a nutter. I know he’s got disciplinary issues.<\/p>\n

“But I just think he can be a very good centre-half and I think someone like Michael [Carrick] could really calm him down. And you’re talking 30 or 40 million quid. This is a fella who’s played centre half and won the World Cup. Now, like I said, I know he’s got issues, disciplinary issues.<\/p>\n

“I’d go and get Romero. I actually think he’ll go to Atletico Madrid, but, you know you talk about ‘mavericks’? And I know he’s a centre half, but do you know what I mean? He’s got that bit of an idiot about him. It’s not a very nice thing to say, you know, a bit like [Eric] Cantona did.<\/p>\n

“Obviously, Cantona was a centre forward. It’s a little bit different, more creative. But I just think he could become a bit of a cult hero type. Funnily enough, that’s what I like about him. There’s a bit of maverick about a centre-half. Do you know what I mean? I think Michael could relax him.”<\/p>\n

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Cristian Romero has been linked with a move away from Spurs(Image: Image Photo Agency\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Scholes believes Manchester United must make a move for Tottenham Hotspur defender Cristian Romero. The Argentine looks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,1441,1465,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-735406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","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\/735406","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=735406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}