{"id":199391,"date":"2025-06-20T08:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T08:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199391\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T08:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T08:31:14","slug":"amorim-bans-four-bad-apples-from-tour-as-aston-villa-make-shock-34m-outcast-enquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199391\/","title":{"rendered":"Amorim bans four &#8216;bad apples&#8217; from tour as Aston Villa make shock \u00a334m outcast &#8216;enquiry&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruben Amorim has told four \u201cbad apples\u201d at Manchester United that they won\u2019t be coming on their tour of the United States in July if they haven\u2019t already found a new club.<\/p>\n<p>Amorim is working hard with newly-promoted Director of Football Jason Wilcox to revamp a United squad which produced the worst season in living memory last term.<\/p>\n<p>Matheus Cunha has joined the club in a \u00a362.5m move from Wolves and they\u2019ve reportedly made an improved \u00a360m+ bid for Brentford\u2019s Bryan Mbeumo after their opening offer of \u00a345m plus \u00a310m in add-ons fell short, but a fresh report claims a transfer U-turn may see <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-mbeumo-spurs-u-turn-two-reasons-60m-bid-submitted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Cameroon international \u2018choose Tottenham\u2019 for \u2018obvious reasons\u2019<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s widely expected that United will have to make significant sales this summer in order to provide Amorim the cash to make the changes he wants and the club is working hard to find buyers for Marcus Rashford, Antony, Jadon Sancho and Alejandro Garnacho.<\/p>\n<p>Garnacho ended last season as the club\u2019s second top scorer with 11 goals in all competitions, to go with ten assists, but was told by Amorim to source a new club at the end of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Napoli remain keen on the 20-year-old, whom United reportedly want \u00a370m for, while <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/chelsea-loan-buy-move-man-utd-romano-20-year-old-only-wants-blues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea, Aston Villa and Tottenham are also said to be interested<\/a><\/strong>, but the Serie A giants may instead move for Sancho, with reports suggesting the winger has \u2018verbally agreed\u2019 to a move to Naples.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Rashford has done everything possible to seal his \u2018dream\u2019 move to Barcelona, but <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-transfer-barcelona-127m-offer-perfect-romano-agreement-sealed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Catalans look set to sign Nico Williams from Athletic Club as their new left winger<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-transfers-newcastle-offer-liverpool-move-isak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newcastle are thought to be keen on Rashford<\/a><\/strong> amid reports of a huge Liverpool bid for their striker Alexander Isak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE MAN UTD COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<\/strong><br \/><strong>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-upset-barcelona-star-threatens-leave-red-devils-offer-agreement-reached\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man Utd: \u2018Upset\u2019 Barcelona star \u2018threatens to leave\u2019 after Red Devils \u2018offer\u2019 with \u2018agreement\u2019 reached<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/arsenal-gyokeres-refuses-one-club-man-utd-target-above-all-dream-sensational-assist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Viktor Gyokeres \u2018refuses\u2019 one club as Man Utd, Arsenal target decides \u2018above all dream\u2019 transfer<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-transfers-victor-osimhen-channel-refreshed-waiting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Victor Osimhen \u2018channel refreshed\u2019 as \u00a364m star \u2018waiting for\u2019 Man Utd offer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is reportedly \u2018growing optimism\u2019 from both Real Betis and Antony that he will prolong his stay with the La Liga side after his impressive return of nine goals and five assists in the second half of last season.<\/p>\n<p>United are said to want \u00a334m for the Brazilian but Betis\u00a0have proposed a deal which would see United claim a significant percentage of any future sale as it\u2019s thought they can only stump up \u00a317m as an initial payment.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0<strong><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/strettynews.com\/2025\/06\/16\/exclusive-stars-unusual-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stretty News report<\/a><\/strong> that Antony also has admirers from the Premier League, claiming: \u2018Our sources can also confirm that Aston Villa and Brentford have enquired about Antony, but the tricky winger has clearly given his preference to Betis.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Sun claim that if any of the quartet have failed to find a new club by the time United fly to the States in July for their pre-season tour they will be left behind to train alone at Carrington.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/35487201\/amorim-man-utd-rashford-garnacho-antony-sancho-exit\/\" target=\"_blank\">A club source said<\/a><\/strong>: \u201cAmorim is stamping his authority on the club. It was hard arriving mid-season but he now has the opportunity to shape the team in his image. And he\u2019s wasting no time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe only wants players who would die for the shirt and are on board with his ideas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe also wants a smaller squad to create an intimate team bond so that everyone gets enough game time to be at peak fitness when called upon. He doesn\u2019t want any bad apples or distractions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruben Amorim has told four \u201cbad apples\u201d at Manchester United that they won\u2019t be coming on their tour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,98,12,99,79,16,2970,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-199391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-front-page","9":"tag-manchester-united","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-ruben-amorim","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-uncategorized","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114714763865468801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199391","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=199391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}