{"id":328592,"date":"2025-08-08T18:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328592\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:55:08","slug":"60000-tickets-sold-for-man-utd-v-fiorentina-8-aug-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328592\/","title":{"rendered":"60,000 tickets sold for Man Utd v Fiorentina | 8 Aug 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WELCOME BACK, DAVID<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New faces will not be the only order of the day at the Theatre of Dreams, as the Italian club will bring with them a renowned former Red in David De Gea.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish keeper spent 12 years with the club, encompassing Premier League, Europa League, Emirates FA Cup and League Cup triumphs, and is returning for the first time as a player since departing the club in 2023, should La Viola boss Stefano Pioli select him on the day.<\/p>\n<p>De Gea, along with our new signings and the rest of the United squad, will undoubtedly receive a warm welcome from a bustling Old Trafford before we get down to business, putting in the finishing touches on a solid pre-season ahead of Arsenal&#8217;s visit just over a week later.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manutd.com\/en\/news\/detail\/david-de-gea-responds-to-bruno-fernandes-message-ahead-of-manchester-united-v-fiorentina\" target=\"_blank\">David<\/a> has been swapping messages with former team-mate <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manutd.com\/en\/news\/detail\/bruno-fernandes-sends-david-de-gea-message-before-fiorentina-clash\" target=\"_blank\">Bruno Fernandes<\/a> ahead of the game, too. The pair are due to be involved in a celebratory pre-match moment at pitchside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WELCOME BACK, DAVID New faces will not be the only order of the day at the Theatre of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,1592,4884,18,2465,12,118288,20,16,15,21],"class_list":{"0":"post-328592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-first-team","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-like","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-promotional","16":"tag-search","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-united-now"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114994670744317248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328592","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=328592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}