{"id":25904,"date":"2026-05-18T20:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/25904\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T20:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:16:21","slug":"man-utd-transfers-ineos-top-midfield-target-will-be-sacrificed-but-mourinho-to-block-real-madrid-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/25904\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd transfers: INEOS top midfield target will be &#8216;sacrificed&#8217; but Mourinho &#8216;to block&#8217; Real Madrid deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, Newcastle United have opened the door for Sandro Tonali to join Manchester United, who could miss out on another target.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/manchester-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Red Devils<\/a> are known to be in the market for at least two new midfielders heading into this summer\u2019s transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>With Manuel Ugarte expected to follow Casemiro in leaving, United need to overhaul this department in the summer and are linked with a wide array of options.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Baleba, Adam Wharton and Elliot Anderson have been mooted as leading options for Man Utd, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-139m-duo-top-ineos-midfield-shortlist-dream-signing-impossible\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">but Tonali is also on their radar and it has been reported that he is one of their two top targets this summer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At Newcastle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/sandro-tonali\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tonali <\/a>has developed into one of the top midfielders in the Premier League, but they need to offload a couple of valuable assets to balance the books without Champions League football.<\/p>\n<p>READ:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/opinion-carrick-man-utd-set-become-greatest-ever-premier-league-champions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Carrick sets Man Utd up to become best-ever Premier League champions after five-word Neville summary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, Anthony Gordon has looked the most likely of Newcastle\u2019s leading stars to leave as he has agreed personal terms with Bayern Munich, but Tonali could also be out of the door this summer.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corriere.it\/native\/26_maggio_16\/sport-u35201436227727tc.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">a new report from Italian outlet Corriere della Sera<\/a>, Newcastle have put Tonali \u2018up for sale\u2019 and he will be \u2018sacrificed\u2019 this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The report explains:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018After failing to qualify for the Champions League, the Magpies are ready to consider offers for the midfielder, who, despite a ten-month betting ban, has made 103 Premier League appearances and scored 10 goals. Having paid Milan \u20ac59 million (according to the financial statements), the English club is expecting offers of \u20ac100 million.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/premier-league-title-race-relegation-records-run-in\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Everything still to be decided in the Premier League run-in: Title, relegation, records and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018This figure is out of the market for Italian clubs (any reference to Juve is not purely coincidental). Transfer fee aside, the former Rossoneri player earns a salary of nearly \u20ac10 million. Manchester United or City are the most likely destinations.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Jose Mourinho set to block Man Utd from signing Federico Valverde<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid star Federico Valverde is a left-field alternative linked with Man Utd, but a report from Football Insider\u2018s Pete O\u2019Rourke claims Jose Mourinho, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/real-madrid-romano-confirms-mourinho-agreed-deal-details-man-city-star-requested\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after \u2018agreeing\u2019 to return to the Spanish giants<\/a>, is \u2018to block\u2019 this move from happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he\u2019s allowed to leave Real Madrid this summer, you would imagine most of Europe\u2019s big clubs would be interested,\u201d O\u2019Rourke told Football Insider.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/times-premier-league-race-went-to-final-day-what-happened-next\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Ten times the Premier League title race went to the final day and what happened next<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously it looks like Jose Mourinho will be returning to the Bernabeu as well. He\u2019ll have a huge role to play in the future of Valverde if he wants him to stick around as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo surprise that Manchester United have been credited with an interest in Valverde.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cValverde has always indicated that he wants to stay at Madrid and sees them as his dream club and let\u2019s see what Jose Mourinho has got planned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expect Mourinho will be looking to keep hold of Valverde and all of Real Madrid\u2019s other star players, so it could be very difficult to get a deal done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to reports, Newcastle United have opened the door for Sandro Tonali to join Manchester United, who could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[640,2758,82,263,1875,273,100,83,13476,1743],"class_list":["post-25904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-federico-valverde","tag-home-page","tag-madrid","tag-manchester-united","tag-newcastle-united","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-real-madrid","tag-sandro-tonali","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}