The Captain of the Manchester United must decide whether he should leave Old Trafford in a remarkable transfer of £ 100 million who would see him pick up from £ 700k a week, and where club bosses may feel that they need the money more than he after their disastrous season
Bruno Fernandes has been given seven days to decide to leave Manchester United. The club captain is searched for by Saudi Pro League side Al Hilal in a monster £ 100 million transfer, so that the Portuguese would also earn £ 100 million tax-free in the coming three years, but no less than £ 700k per week-.
Al will Hilal play in the upcoming FIFA Club World Cup, and Saudi leaders are desperate to see how their selection framework makes a splash, it is well aware that the eyes of the world will be on them when they encounter their tournament opener in their tournament opener on 18 June.
En ze zijn wanhopig om de 30-jarige Fernandes te landen, in een beweging die hem zou zien aansluiten bij Portugal-teamgenoten Ruben Neves en Joao Cancelo, ex-Chelsea-verdediger Kalidou Koulibaly, voormalig Fulham Hitman Aleksandar Mitrovic, en, potentieel, Cristiano Ronaldo-als een deal is vastgesteld om hem toe te staan om een tijdelijke deal to connect.
The Fernandes agent, Miguel Pinho, spent three days in Saudi this week in the Four Seasons Hotel in Riyad, while held negotiations with Club Al Hilal representatives. And there is a growing conviction that Fernandes can be persuaded to make the move.
United is public that their best player is not for sale. The transfer costs of £ 100 million, however, are a transformational amount in view of their financial perilous situation, whereby that pressure has only grown after the last loss of the Europa League for Spurs last week, a defeat that eventually cost them £ 100 million in Champions League income.
United is public that their best player is not for sale. However, the transfer costs of £ 100 million are a transformational amount in view of their financial perilous situation and it is not going beyond the possibility that Fernandes will be asked to leave for the well -being of the club.
But Baas Ruben Amorim is desperate to stay – and told Sir Jim Ratcliffe and the decision makers of the club to come up with the money elsewhere.
Speaking after United had ended their tour after the season through Asia with a 3-1 win over Hong Kong, where Fernandes played 45 minutes from the opening, Amorim was asked if fans had seen the last of their captain in action.
“I don't think so I don't know for sure. Nobody knows, but I don't think,” said the Red Devil's boss. “I think he sees us take a number of actions to change all things and I think he has seen it and I think he wants to stay.
“He says no to many things, but he shows that he wants to win. He is very young, he is really good that he has to be in the best competition in the world.”
Amorim was then asked if United, who was not eligible for Europe for the first time in 11 years, was able to reject the type of money that Al-Hilal would be willing to pay for Fernandes.
“Yes, we can find another way to make money,” he replied. “Of course I am the manager, I am the coach, but sometimes it is the player's decision. But of course I talk to him, I explain things. I just have that feeling if he wants to stay.
“Of course he was so frustrated in many games this season, but he knows what we are doing.
“The feeling is that every time I talk to him, he wants to continue at Manchester United, but you never know.”
Fernandes won the Club's Player of the Year Award for a record-similar fourth time that a radiant light was during the worst top campaign of the Red Devils since the relegation in 1973-74 ran.
But former United Star Paul Scholes believes that club heads “should already bite Hilal's hand” and have to take the money for the old Trafford Talisman.
The 11-way Prime Minister League champion said about the debate about overlapping fan: “They are talking about £ 100 million for him. Man United can't say no to that.
“Do you know when you also talk about this system, I know he has been brilliant and the team has worn on his back, but where does he play? What is his position? Do you see him as a number 10? Do you see him as a midfielder?
“He almost confuses the whole system because he doesn't have that one position for him. I mean, he has been brilliant, I am not wrong.
“But if you get £ 100 million for him, you nod with their hand and take it.”