{"id":679212,"date":"2026-06-02T05:13:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679212\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:13:46","slug":"mason-greenwood-ex-manchester-united-forward-wanted-by-fenerbahces-presidential-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679212\/","title":{"rendered":"Mason Greenwood: Ex-Manchester United forward wanted by Fenerbahce&#8217;s presidential rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mason Greenwood is the top transfer target for Fenerbahce&#8217;s two presidential candidates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Manchester United and England forward has had a difficult few months at Marseille.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their new sporting director Gregory Lorenzi said last week the club was willing to listen to offers for Greenwood, who has three years remaining on the five-year deal he signed when he left United on a permanent basis in July 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former president Aziz Yildirim is vying with Hakan Safi for the club presidency of the Turkish club, with an announcement due on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is not anticipated personal terms would be a problem in trying to sign Greenwood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The striker has had to rebuild his career away from United despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-manchester-64502021\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">charges of attempted rape and assault being dropped<\/a> in February 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An internal investigation eventually concluded Greenwood could not play for the club again. In April, new Tottenham boss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cwyvq3gqwpyo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roberto De Zerbi was forced to apologise<\/a> for defending Greenwood during his time at Marseille.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old has scored 48 goals in 81 appearances for Marseille. He finished joint second behind Rennes&#8217; Esteban Lepaul in the Ligue 1 golden boot standings this season with 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fenerbahce finished second for the fifth successive season in the Turkish Super Lig and will enter the Champions League in the second qualifying round in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">United included what club sources described as a &#8220;sizeable sell-on fee&#8221; when they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/crg7lm0zed5o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sold Greenwood to Marseille<\/a> for 31.6m euros (\u00a326.6m).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has also been linked with Serie A side Roma in recent days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mason Greenwood is the top transfer target for Fenerbahce&#8217;s two presidential candidates. The former Manchester United and England&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-679212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679212","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=679212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}