{"id":671474,"date":"2026-05-29T04:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/671474\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T04:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:44:11","slug":"man-united-transfer-news-live-tonali-stance-38m-ederson-deal-rashford-to-arsenal-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/671474\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United transfer news LIVE: Tonali stance, \u00a338m Ederson deal, Rashford to Arsenal update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Bruno Fernandes has revealed just how close he came to signing for Tottenham Hotspur before making his move to <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/old-trafford\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Old Trafford<\/a> in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Opening up on The Diary Of A CEO podcast, he said: &#8220;Yeah, I spoke with Tottenham, and we were very close to getting an agreement done. Then, in the last two days of the market, Sporting just said, &#8216;We&#8217;re not going to sell him. We&#8217;re going to keep him because we need him&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Yes, because I wanted to play in the <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/premier-league\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Premier League<\/a>, because for me it is the best league in the world. It&#8217;s the most competitive one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;It&#8217;s the one that I think when you grow up, you dream to play for you know, like full stadiums, top clubs, top players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Obviously, I was lucky enough that my dream club to play in England was Man United, and obviously, Tottenham at the time was the option I had, and I was very, very happy to join them because they showed me the process that they were going through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bruno Fernandes broke the Premier League assist record on Sunday\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0_Bruno-Fernandes-23.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Bruno Fernandes broke the Premier League assist record on Sunday\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Bruno Fernandes broke the Premier League assist record on Sunday(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruno Fernandes has revealed just how close he came to signing for Tottenham Hotspur before making his move&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[199002,4566,6923,16340,18766,403,99],"class_list":["post-671474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-football-blog","tag-manchester-united-fc","tag-manchester-united-transfer-news","tag-marcus-rashford","tag-newcastle-united-fc","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}