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This summer has seen some great transfer business from Manchester United, managing to offload a considerable number of key sales, whilst signing some top names and not at over priced rates.
The Red Devils spent a combined £180 million on signing Joshua Zirkzee, Leny Yoro, Matthijs de Ligt, Noussair Mazraoui and Manuel Ugarte.
The key pursuit of the summer though was Manuel Ugarte. He was identified at the start of the transfer window as a priority target for United and it took right the way through until the final week to actually complete on the deal.
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This signing marked the only midfield recruitment of the summer, however it wasn’t the only midfielder that manager Erik ten Hag wanted to sign. Reports emerging now are claiming that as well as reuniting with de Ligt and Mazraoui, the Dutch manager wanted another reunion to take place.
Erik ten Hag has request for reunion rejected
Speaking on the Talk of the Devils podcast, journalist Andy Mitten said: “Erik ten Hag wanted Amrabat for this season.”
He continued: “And because of the chat internally, that didn’t happen and that’s fine. This is how Manchester United are working now.”
It’s been well known that Sofyan Amrabat wanted to return to Old Trafford after his loan spell in the Premier League. The Moroccan fell out of favour at Fiorentina, hence his loan move to United, however upon his return to the Serie A side, he still remain in individual training, wanting a move away from the club permanently.
When speaking to Ziggo Sports about a return to United at the start of the summer, Amrabat commented: “For Manchester United, it needs to be much better, and also for me personally. We are going to talk. Manchester United are the biggest club in the world, so who wouldn’t want to play football here? But all parties have to be happy with each other, so we will sit down now and see what happens.”
Unfortunately for Amrabat and ten Hag, the recruitment team didn’t see the midfielder as a worthwhile purchase this summer, ultimately wanting to focus solely on Ugarte.
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