{"id":376228,"date":"2025-08-27T00:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/376228\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T00:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:08:11","slug":"napoli-closing-in-on-signing-rasmus-hojlund-from-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/376228\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoli closing in on signing Rasmus Hojlund from Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rasmus Hojlund has been left out of both of Man United’s Premier League matchday squads this season.\"HojlundHojlund is set to leave United<\/p>\n

Napoli are closing in on the loan signing of Rasmus Hojlund from Manchester United<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Italian champions initially proposed only a loan move but United insisted that an obligation to buy also be inserted into the deal.<\/p>\n

Hojlund, 22, previously generated interest from AC Milan but Napoli emerged as the frontrunners after Romelu Lukaku was ruled out for up to four months.<\/p>\n

United required a \u00a338.4m (\u20ac44.44m) fee to avoid a loss on Hojlund, whom they bought for \u00a364m rising to \u00a372m two years ago, under the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules. Due to Hojlund’s and United’s form last season, a permanent transfer always seemed unforeseeable.<\/p>\n

The club were prepared to cut their losses for \u00a330m but Napoli have struck a loan arrangement. Hojlund’s value will be \u00a325.6m next year as he will have two years left on his United contract.<\/p>\n

Napoli coach Antonio Conte has a penchant for recruiting players from the Premier League. When Conte was coach of Inter Milan between 2019-21, Lukaku, Alexis Sanchez, Ashley Young, Christian Eriksen and Victor Moses all arrived from English clubs.<\/p>\n

United made Hojlund available for transfer following the signing of Benjamin Sesko from RB Leipzig in a \u00a373.62million deal on August 9. The MEN reported in May that Hojlund had lost the confidence of senior figures at the club<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The MEN revealed earlier this month that sources close to Hojlund felt he would have to leave if United brought in a new centre forward<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hojlund has been omitted from both of United’s Premier League<\/a> squads against Arsenal and Fulham this season amid the anticipation that he will leave.<\/p>\n

United head coach Ruben Amorim has not started Hojlund in any of their four games since the Denmark international outlined his intention to stay at the club.<\/p>\n

Including their pre-season schedule, United have won only two of their last seven matches and both victories came with Hojlund in the starting XI.<\/p>\n

Hojlund joined United from Atalanta in July 2023 and scored a creditable 16 goals in his first season but managed only ten strikes last term, with a meagre four coming in the Premier League. The Dane scored three goals in his final 35 appearances for United.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rasmus Hojlund has been left out of both of Man United’s Premier League matchday squads this season.Hojlund is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,423,9060,10384,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-376228","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-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-manchester-united-fc","13":"tag-manchester-united-transfer-news","14":"tag-rasmus-hojlund","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115097823503330899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376228","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=376228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}