{"id":190486,"date":"2024-06-18T17:25:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T17:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/18\/man-utd-offer-25-4m-to-barcelona-for-star-midfielder\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T17:25:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T17:25:51","slug":"man-utd-offer-25-4m-to-barcelona-for-star-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/18\/man-utd-offer-25-4m-to-barcelona-for-star-midfielder\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd \u2018offer \u00a325.4m to Barcelona\u2019 for star midfielder \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Manchester United have made a \u00a325.4m (\u20ac30m) bid to sign Barcelona midfielder Fermin Lopez, according to a report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fermin enjoyed an outstanding breakout season with Barca in 2023\/24, contributing 11 goals and one assist in 40 games across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>His form didn\u2019t go unnoticed and he was named to Spain\u2019s 26-player squad for Euro 2024, making his senior debut for La Roja in a friendly against Andorra earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Catalan outlet\u00a0<em>SPORT<\/em>\u00a0claim Barcelona have rejected an offer worth \u00a325.4m from United for Fermin. The Red Devils are said to be in the market for a technically-gifted midfielder capable of crashing the box and scoring, and had identified Fermin as one of their top targets.<\/p>\n<p>United\u2019s bid is the first that\u00a0Barcelona\u00a0have received for the 21-year-old this summer, but they do not intend to sell him, especially at the price they were offered by the Premier League side.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/01j0nn3xk1br65smy1b0.jpg\" alt=\"Fermin Lopez\" title=\"Fermin Lopez\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Fermin is with the Spain squad at Euro 2024 \/ Fran Santiago\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>Barca\u2019s financial woes have been well-documented over the last few years, but they would not consider parting company with Fermin unless an unimaginably enormous offer came in for him.<\/p>\n<p>United\u00a0have previously been linked with Fermin\u2019s Barcelona teammate Frenkie de Jong, with manager Erik ten Hag making a huge push to sign him upon arrival at Old Trafford in the summer of 2022. Ten Hag has also spoken at length about how he believes his time as manager would have been more successful had a player of De Jong\u2019s characteristics been brought in at the start of his reign.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Fermin, De Jong is not at\u00a0Euro 2024\u00a0having failed to recover from an ankle injury in time to make the Netherlands\u2019 final squad.<\/p>\n<p>Fermin could feature for\u00a0Spain\u00a0when they take on tournament holders Italy in the pick of Thursday\u2019s Euro 2024 games.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United have made a \u00a325.4m (\u20ac30m) bid to sign Barcelona midfielder Fermin Lopez, according to a report. Fermin enjoyed an outstanding breakout season with Barca in 2023\/24, contributing 11 goals and one assist in 40 games across all competitions. His form didn\u2019t go unnoticed and he was named to Spain\u2019s 26-player squad for Euro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Man Utd \u2018offer \u00a325.4m to Barcelona\u2019 for star midfielder \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/18\/man-utd-offer-25-4m-to-barcelona-for-star-midfielder\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Man Utd \u2018offer \u00a325.4m to Barcelona\u2019 for star midfielder \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Manchester United have made a \u00a325.4m (\u20ac30m) bid to sign Barcelona midfielder Fermin Lopez, according to a report. 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