Manchester United \u2018can afford\u2019 top midfield target Carlos Baleba this summer and \u2018could revive a deal\u2019 for the Brighton star despite reports claiming they\u2019ve walked away from his possible transfer.<\/p>\n
The Red Devils have held talks over a move for Baleba via intermediaries and then directly with Brighton this month to sound them out over a deal, but with the Seagulls wanting \u00a3100m+, The Athletic\u2019s David Ornstein revealed on Friday<\/a><\/strong> that United had decided not to push ahead with talks.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Premier League winners and losers: Sunderland shine, Potter sack, Man City and Chiesa click, Brentford \u2018naive\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018Manchester United are not planning to proceed with a move for Carlos Baleba before the transfer window closes,\u2019 he wrote.<\/p>\n \u2018Moving to Old Trafford appeals to Baleba so personal terms would have presented no problem \u2014 and the Cameroon international is prepared to keep pushing, even if it means waiting until the future.<\/p>\n \u2018That does not suggest he is unhappy at Brighton and the dialogue has been cordial, with United respecting their stance.\u2019<\/p>\n But The Standard, while offering no more information besides, claim \u2018a deal could be revived\u2019 for the 21-year-old<\/a><\/strong>, and\u00a0football finance expert Dan Plumley insists United \u201ccan afford him if they want him\u201d.<\/p>\n Plumley told Football Insider<\/a><\/strong>: \u201cUltimately, and we\u2019ve said this before with other players this summer, Man United can afford him if they want him.<\/p>\n \u201cThey have got options to draw upon. There\u2019s a credit facility, a revolving one that we think has been drawn down.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve seen the way they\u2019ll stagger instalments for other players that they\u2019ve brought in as well.<\/p>\n MORE MAN UTD COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 \u201cIn terms of general affordability, the answer is still yes. I think the interesting thing on the fee is if it is going to be \u00a3100m or in and around that figure, then it probably won\u2019t happen this summer.<\/p>\n \u201cThat would be the other way to look at it, because that then is a significant outlay on top of what they\u2019ve already spent this summer.<\/p>\n \u201cIf the fee\u2019s gonna be that high, I think that probably means they wouldn\u2019t look at him this summer, but if they think a deal can be done further down the line, next year seems more likely.<\/p>\n \u201cCan they afford him this summer? Yes, in the bigger picture, but \u00a3100m now, given where the window\u2019s at, probably not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United \u2018can afford\u2019 top midfield target Carlos Baleba this summer and \u2018could revive a deal\u2019 for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[796,18,793,19,17,20,5,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-7852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-carlos-baleba","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-front-page","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-manchester-united","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852","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=7852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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