{"id":198064,"date":"2024-07-09T12:46:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T12:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/09\/former-champions-league-winners-make-formal-bid-for-mason-greenwood\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T12:46:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T12:46:17","slug":"former-champions-league-winners-make-formal-bid-for-mason-greenwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/09\/former-champions-league-winners-make-formal-bid-for-mason-greenwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Champions League winners make \u2018formal bid\u2019 for Mason Greenwood \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Mason Greenwood met with Manchester United officials at the club\u2019s Carrington training ground on Monday amid reports that former Champions League winners Marseille have made a move to sign the 22-year-old.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greenwood is back at United this summer after his loan with Getafe expired, but he is not expected to be re-integrated into the squad and is instead available for\u00a0transfer\u00a0as he enters the final 12 months of his contract.<\/p>\n<p>United held their first day of pre-season training on Monday and Greenwood was present at Carrington, but\u00a0<em>The Athletic<\/em>\u00a0note that the striker did not train and instead held meetings with senior officials before departing.<\/p>\n<p>There is plenty of interest in Greenwood\u2019s services after a solid loan spell which saw him score eight goals and contribute six assists in La Liga last season.<\/p>\n<p>Marseille and Lazio are both believed to have made formal approaches for Greenwood, whose price tag is not clear. Reports have valued Greenwood at between \u00a320m and \u00a340m.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<em>Fabrizio Romano<\/em>, United would be open to a loan exit for Greenwood but only if it included both an obligatory purchase clause and a sell-on clause.<\/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\/07\/01j29fw6fdwgfzq0w5xz.jpg\" alt=\"Mason Greenwood\" title=\"Mason Greenwood\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Greenwood impressed during his time in Spain \/ Quality Sport Images\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>Greenwood\u2019s preference is understood to be a move to Marseille and Lazio president Claudio Lotito effectively ruled his club out of the race with some inflammatory comments to the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, we were 20 minutes late due to a mismatch between the markets in Italy and England and so [a deal for Greenwood] fell through,\u201d Lotito revealed. \u201cI had signed Greenwood last year when you didn\u2019t even know who he was. The facts proved me right because he did well [with Getafe].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s not just Greenwood, there are also other players that you don\u2019t even know. I could tell you a name, which I won\u2019t because I want to keep you guessing, that is worth ten times Greenwood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greenwood has not trained with\u00a0United\u00a0since January 2022 when he was arrested for attempted rape, assault and coercive control. 13 months later, the case against the striker was discontinued. Greenwood has denied all wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mason Greenwood met with Manchester United officials at the club\u2019s Carrington training ground on Monday amid reports that former Champions League winners Marseille have made a move to sign the 22-year-old. Greenwood is back at United this summer after his loan with Getafe expired, but he is not expected to be re-integrated into the squad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198064","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>Former Champions League winners make \u2018formal bid\u2019 for Mason Greenwood \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\/07\/09\/former-champions-league-winners-make-formal-bid-for-mason-greenwood\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Champions League winners make \u2018formal bid\u2019 for Mason Greenwood \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mason Greenwood met with Manchester United officials at the club\u2019s Carrington training ground on Monday amid reports that former Champions League winners Marseille have made a move to sign the 22-year-old. 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