{"id":1147261,"date":"2026-08-14T01:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1147261\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T01:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:57:25","slug":"elliot-anderson-explains-why-he-snubbed-manchester-uniteds-holiday-transfer-plea-to-complete-manchester-city-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1147261\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliot Anderson explains why he snubbed Manchester United&#8217;s holiday transfer plea to complete Manchester City move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anderson has insisted he never came close to joining United, despite a group of Old Trafford stars attempting to persuade him to move to the red side of the city while on holiday. Speaking at a fan event at the City club store on Wednesday, Anderson addressed the long-standing rumours that United had made him their primary transfer target before City won the race.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about reports that he had been lobbied by United players during the off-season, Anderson confirmed the encounters but stayed firm on his decision. &#8220;I was just golfing in Portugal and bumped into a few and had a nice chat and stuff like that, but I had a decision to make and I chose City,&#8221; the England international explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anderson has insisted he never came close to joining United, despite a group of Old Trafford stars attempting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1147262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,213965,393,4884,2465,886,98,101,16,15],"class_list":["post-1147261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-britain","tag-e-anderson","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-city","tag-manchester-united","tag-premier-league","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117091385142773608","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1147262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}