Real Madrid midfielder Federico Valverde has turned down a move to Man Utd despite meetings with Sir Jim Ratcliffe, according to reports.<\/p>\n
The Red Devils spent over \u00a3200m on five new signings in the summer market with Bryan Mbeumo, Matheus Cunha, Benjamin Sesko, Senne Lammens and Diego Leon all joining.<\/p>\n
Man Utd<\/strong><\/a> put a focus on attacking players after just four Premier League sides scored fewer goals than the Red Devils last season.<\/p>\n Things have improved in that department and now they will look to put their effort into signing at least one new midfielder in the summer transfer market.<\/p>\n Speaking on deadline day, Sky Sports reporter Rob Dorsett explained why Man Utd didn\u2019t attempt to buy a new midfielder in January and that they \u201cmay even do two\u201d in the summer.<\/p>\n Dorsett told Sky Sports News<\/strong><\/a>: \u201cMidfield is where Man Utd feel they will focus the bulk of their spend in the summer. The way it was explained to me was: \u2018if all of the club\u2019s big targets became available in January they would jump at it, but not by paying over the odds\u2019.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Man Utd pair join winger ghosted by Palace among five stranded after transfer deadline<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cMost clubs feel if you go for a big name in January (unless they are due to be out of contract), you pay a premium.<\/p>\n \u201cCarlos Baleba\u00a0at Brighton is on their list,\u00a0Elliot Anderson\u00a0at Nottingham Forest, they like\u00a0Adam Wharton,\u00a0and\u00a0Joao Gomes\u00a0at Wolves so there\u2019s a number of options. They may even do two.<\/p>\n \u201cWindow by window, they are prioritising areas of the team. It\u2019s a very data-led approach. Last summer the priority was to score more goals so that\u2019s why they pumped \u00a3280m into three forward players.<\/p>\n \u201cNow they are wanting to solve the next imbalance and are going to address midfield. I get the impression Anderson is top of the list but we\u2019re talking over \u00a3100m.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE MANCHESTER UNITED COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<\/strong> One midfielder who may not be joining Man Utd in the summer is Real Madrid star Valverde with reports in Spain claiming that the Uruguay international has \u2018rejected\u2019 the Red Devils.<\/p>\n Valverde was one of the Real Madrid players \u2018accused\u2019 of being responsible for Xabi Alonso\u2019s departure from the Bernabeu with the club appointing Alvaro Arbeloa as his successor.<\/p>\n The Real Madrid midfielder is \u2018open to exploring all his future options\u2019 but the Man Utd option \u2018isn\u2019t his most appealing\u2019 as he \u2018prefers to join a team with institutional stability and the guarantee of competing for every title\u2019.<\/p>\n Valverde\u2019s agent \u2018has held two meetings\u2019 with Man Utd co-owner Ratcliffe in the last three weeks, fueling speculation he could move to Old Trafford.<\/p>\n Real Madrid, for their part, \u2018will only accept offers approaching \u20ac100m\u2019 for Valverde, an investment that Man Utd \u2018seem willing to make\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid midfielder Federico Valverde has turned down a move to Man Utd despite meetings with Sir Jim…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":563868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[45],"tags":[124915,9655,3782,50,220,10214,27832,221,62,9656,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-563867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-federico-valverde","tag-home-page","tag-manchester-united","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-real-madrid","tag-sir-jim-ratcliffe","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-uncategorized","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116008106216655069","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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