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Thursday, February 3rd
07.35: If there’s one thing that never seems to stop, it is Ousmane Dembelethe link to United. The player did not disappear in January, but can then go free for the summer. Spanish Sports writes that the Catalans have identified United or Juventus as the club he will then sign for.
The Spanish club must be very annoyed with him. They think he and the agent have pretended that they could stay, just to say no to PSG, Tottenham and Chelsea in January because he allegedly, according to Barcelona, has long ago decided to go free to Juventus or United.
07.30: United are becoming increasingly confident that they will get the hang of it Mauricio Pochettino as his next manager, writes Daily Mirror. This is because he will still be unhappy in Paris as PSG coach.
Pochettino is about to lead PSG to an expected league gold, but smoked out of the cup against Nice this week.
Foot Market also writes that Pochettino is tired of his stay in France. They even write that Pochettino was ready to leave PSG already in January, because he is tired of the sporting, tired of the non-sporting and does not cooperate well with the club’s sports director. Then there was no transfer away in January, but Pochettino will not envisage a future in Paris beyond this season.
Wednesday, February 2nd
19.15: Rumor guru Fabrizio Romano has summed up United’s transfer window in a video on sin Youtube-kanal and the Italian is aware that Ralf Rangnick’s crew was never close by picking up any new signings.
Neither Julian Alvarez, Denis Zakaria, Boubacar Chamber or Ousmane Dembele should at some point have been close to a transfer to Old Trafford.
The main reason is that United do not want to risk that the January purchases will not suit the manager the club will eventually sign next summer. This is also the reason why the only players who disappeared from the first team in January disappeared on loan agreements without call options.
By the way, there should be no truth in the rumors that Edinson Cavani becomes the aforementioned Álvarez ‘replacement in River Plate.
08.00: More about the competition than about United so far today. Manchester City are supposed to do what they can to convince Erling Braut Haaland about getting to Manchester, according to The Athletic. The Norwegian himself will want to join Real Madrid, but the Spaniards will prioritize Kylian Mbappé.
Simultaneously connect Declan Rice, Jules Kounde and Aurelien Tchouameni to Chelsea. All the players have been linked with United several times in the last year.
Tuesday, February 1st
08.32: Sport Witness mentions a press conference held yesterday by Flamengo Vice President Marcos Braz, and there arose a question about Andreas Pereira.
An Andreas Pereira bid from Flamengo of around € 8 million (around £ 6.7 million at today’s exchange rate) was recently reported in Brazil, which is far from the € 20 million call option, and Marcos Braz was asked about Flamengo has received no response from Manchester United.
– The English have still not responded, perhaps due to the closure of the transfer window, which is today, Braz is said to have said.
The transfer window in Brazil is open for several months to come, and Pereira’s loan deal runs until the summer, so there is no hurry as such, and United may (as the Flamengo vice president mentioned) have wanted to make an assessment on the stand after the closure of the transition window before concluding with what kind of response Flamengo should get.
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