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Manchester United didn’t signal Mikayil Faye from Barcelona, as per the participant’s agent.
United seemingly prioritised strengthening their backline this summer time, having spent greater than €100m to amass Leny Yoro and Matthijs de Ligt from Lille and Bayern Munich respectively.
Whereas supporters on social media seem delighted with United signing De Ligt, who scored towards Southampton over the weekend, and Yoro, it stays unclear if each centre-backs had been the recruitment staff’s most well-liked choices.
A lot has been written about United’s unsuccessful pursuit of Jarrad Branthwaite over the summer time, as Everton refused to half methods with their younger defender regardless of a number of bids from the Mancunian giants.
Now, it has emerged the Outdated Trafford outfit had been additionally knocked again of their makes an attempt to usher in Faye.
Talking on the Inkubator podcast (through Objective), Faye’s agent Andy Bara revealed United expressed curiosity within the 20-year-old.
Nonetheless, the participant was not very open to the thought of shifting to the Theatre of Desires resulting from doubts over his growth.
He stated: “Manchester United had been fascinated by Faye, however he didn’t like that choice. He wasn’t an everyday at Barcelona, so what did it matter if he hadn’t had the identical at United? His growth wouldn’t have progressed in any respect.”
Bara recommended that the Catalan outfit additionally adopted a tough stance throughout negotiations for Faye, as they had been solely open to promoting him with a buy-back clause in any deal.
Finally, French facet Rennes discovered an settlement with Barca to signal the participant by together with a €30 million buy-back clause.
It stays to be seen if United would revisit their curiosity in Faye sooner or later. Nonetheless, The Peoples Individual lately relayed a report suggesting the membership’s hierarchy plans to signal a brand new defender subsequent summer time.
Additional, United are “anticipated to proceed monitoring” Branthwaite.
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