Como manager Cesc Fabregas has insisted that prising 19-year-old prospect Assane Diao away from the Serie A club may not be as straightforward as they like.<\/p>\n
Winger Diao has been linked with a move to Old Trafford for some time now<\/a> after making a big impression since his January move from Real Betis, with Liverpool and Newcastle also claimed to be interested in the Senegal international.<\/p>\n The teenager has racked up six goals and an assist in just 13 games for his new club, prompting a round of speculation last month that led Como president\u00a0Mirwan Suwarso to explain that selling players on for a quick profit is not part of the club\u2019s business plan.<\/p>\n Instead, the newly-promoted side \u2013 currently 13th in Serie A \u2013 are more focused on getting their recent signings to keep pushing them up the table as they aim to become a force in Italian football under the ownership of Indonesian tobacco giants Djarum.<\/p>\n Suwarso said then:\u00a0\u201cMaybe in three or four years, because it would be naive to say that player sales aren\u2019t part of the business. And we\u2019re not short on money \u2013 we are well-backed.\u201d<\/p>\n Fabregas has now moved to echo that sentiment, intriguingly namechecking United in the process \u2013 though of course it\u2019s entirely possible that he was simply responding directly to the rumours connecting Diao with the Red Devils to make his point.<\/p>\n MORE ON MANCHESTER UNITED FROM F365<\/strong> The former Arsenal and Chelsea midfielder responded to questions about Diao\u2019s future to SportItalia, as relayed by Sport Witness:\u00a0\u201cThere is no mentality of speculating and selling, [players] come here to grow and improve the team.<\/p>\n \u201cThen obviously, Manchester [United] can come and ask for Diao by offering \u20ac40m (\u00a334.7m), but it is not a given that he will leave.<\/p>\n \u201cThe objective is to create a path, with players who are functional to the characteristics, working with them. Obviously the value increases, but the important thing is that they are the right players for us.\u201d<\/p>\n Fabregas hung up his boots after a spell playing for Como and had a one-month spell as interim boss in late 2023 before taking the job full time last summer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Como manager Cesc Fabregas has insisted that prising 19-year-old prospect Assane Diao away from the Serie A club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[12552,748,393,163,4884,225,179,2465,98,3047,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-19050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-assane-diao","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-home-page","14":"tag-liverpool","15":"tag-manchester","16":"tag-manchester-united","17":"tag-newcastle-united","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114336043059913477","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19050","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=19050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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