{"id":13817,"date":"2025-08-21T12:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13817\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:17:08","slug":"35m-midfielder-deal-accelerates-as-amorim-fails-to-convince-board-over-aston-villa-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13817\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a335m midfielder deal &#8216;accelerates&#8217; as Amorim &#8216;fails to convince&#8217; board over Aston Villa star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United are \u2018accelerating\u2019 to secure the signing of Lucien Agoume from Sevilla after Ruben Amorim \u2018failed to convince\u2019 the Red Devils board to sign an Aston Villa star.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/every-premier-league-transfer-release-completed-summer-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United have already spent around \u00a3200m this summer<\/a><\/strong>, with Benjamin Sesko, Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo joining the club to form an entirely new front three, with left-back Diego Leon also arriving to bolster Amorim\u2019s options.<\/p>\n<p>But the Portuguese boss is also keen on adding a new midfielder to his ranks, and having <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-give-up-baleba-brighton-beyond-what-united-willing-to-pay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">walked away from a possible deal for Carlos Baleba<\/a><\/strong> having decided they couldn\u2019t stump up the \u00a3100m Brighton are asking for,<strong> <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fichajes.net\/noticias\/manchester-united-lanza-fichaje-lucien-agoume-20250821.html\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish outlet Fichajes claim<\/a><\/strong> they\u2019re ramping up their efforts to sign Agoume.<\/p>\n<p>The report states that United are joined by two further Premier League clubs in \u2018probing the situation\u2019, but the Red Devils are\u00a0\u2018in the lead thanks to the insistence of their coaching staff\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old has a release clause of \u00a335m but it\u2019s thought he could make the move to the Premier League for as little as \u00a321m.<\/p>\n<p>A Sevilla executive commented privately that \u201cthe arrival of offers from England forces the club to listen,\u201d reflecting the growing expectation about a possible transfer, with the La Liga club \u2018seeing the sale of Agouti as a strategic option to clean up their accounts and make room for new signings\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE ON UNITED ON F365<\/strong><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/opinion-garnacho-prck-protection-perfect-transfer-outcome-man-utd-chelsea\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Garnacho \u2018Pr*ck Protection\u2019 grants perfect transfer compromise for Man Utd and Chelsea<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-fans-told-the-next-darwin-nunez-stinging-verdict-74m-signing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Man Utd fans told they have the next Darwin Nunez as stinging verdict of \u00a374m signing dropped<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/every-premier-league-transfer-release-completed-summer-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Every Premier League transfer and release confirmed in the summer of 2025<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report adds:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2018His physical display, tactical reading and ability to move the ball under pressure make him a modern profile, with characteristics similar to those demanded by English football. In addition, it is considered that personal conditions will not be an obstacle, since the Frenchman is open to transfer.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In the footballer\u2019s environment, they recognize that the Premier League is a league that has seduced him for a long time, and his time at Sevilla could be just a step towards a career of greater international projection.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>United have also been heavily linked with new goalkeepers this summer despite Amorim\u2019s insistence after Altay Bayindir\u2019s mistake in the 1-0 defeat to Arsenal that he\u2019s \u201chappy with the three goalkeepers\u201d he has at his disposal.<\/p>\n<p>Dropping Andre Onana for that clash would suggest he\u2019s not entirely happy, and amid links with PSG wantaway Gianluigi Donnarumma, <strong><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=azi36InSevU\" target=\"_blank\">Argentinian outlet TyC Sports claim<\/a><\/strong> the United board denied Amorim when he asked them to make a move for Aston Villa\u2019s Emiliano Martinez earlier in the window.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s claimed the World Cup winner\u2019s \u2018switch to Old Trafford was very close\u2019 but that Amorim failed to convince the hierarchy to invest heavily in another goalkeeper while Onana remains under contract, leaving them willing only to authorise a temporary deal\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United are \u2018accelerating\u2019 to secure the signing of Lucien Agoume from Sevilla after Ruben Amorim \u2018failed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,793,19,17,12891,20,5,5005,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-13817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-front-page","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-lucien-agoume","13":"tag-manchester-united","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ruben-amorim","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}