{"id":580962,"date":"2021-01-29T07:01:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T12:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=580962"},"modified":"2021-01-29T07:01:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T12:01:32","slug":"facundo-pellistri-loan-move-to-deportivo-alaves-to-be-finalised-imminently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/29\/facundo-pellistri-loan-move-to-deportivo-alaves-to-be-finalised-imminently\/","title":{"rendered":"Facundo Pellistri Loan Move to Deportivo Alaves to Be Finalised Imminently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/ac7e7b1c\/Facundo-Pellistri\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facundo Pellistri<\/a> is set to join Deportivo Alav\u00e9s on loan after beating fellow La Liga side Celta Vigo and Club Brugge to the youngster&#8217;s signature.<\/p>\n<h2>United Prospect Pellistri Set For Switch to Spain to Help His Development<\/h2>\n<h3>Loan Move for Manchester United Youngster Facundo Pellistri<\/h3>\n<p>According to Manchester United journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanShrager\/status\/1354940483785666561\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Shrager<\/a>, the deal should be finalised on Friday, January 39.<\/p>\n<p>Pellistri has not made an appearance for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> since<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/05\/manchester-united-complete-facundo-pellistri-signing\/\" target=\"_self\"> he moved to Old Trafford<\/a> for a fee of around \u20ac10 million in October from Uruguayan side Pe\u00f1arol. United will be keen for the 19-year-old to play regular first-team football in order to aid his development.<\/p>\n<p>Although loaning him out to a Championship club was a possibility, the Red Devils see Spain as a more suitable destination. Pellistri would be more comfortable on loan in La Liga, where he can speak his mother tongue and ease into a style of football that is less physically demanding than the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>United feel that loaning him out would be their best option after figures at the club deemed him to have surpassed the level of the U23 squad, demonstrating a readiness for first-team action at just 19 years of age.<\/p>\n<h3>Pellistri in La Liga<\/h3>\n<p>The diminutive winger could play a key role in \u00c1lava, with his new team languishing in 18th place in La Liga, having played two more games than 19th placed Elche.<\/p>\n<p>The Basque Country outfit have been winless since Christmas but they will be hoping the capture of a highly-rated Manchester United youngster will coincide with an upturn in fortunes as they look to stave off the threat of relegation.<\/p>\n<p>They face Getafe and Real Valladolid before tough away fixtures against Barcelona and Real Sociedad respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"huCBUVm_RHB3bKKooSU4Fw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1291014650\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'huCBUVm_RHB3bKKooSU4Fw',sig:'MMd2DCAP2kZoo2IM9IHhJhY32hobgbtZPn8Ucd3xnnw=',w:'594px',h:'424px',items:'1291014650',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facundo Pellistri is set to join Deportivo Alav\u00e9s on loan after beating fellow La Liga side Celta Vigo and Club Brugge to the youngster&#8217;s signature. United Prospect Pellistri Set For Switch to Spain to Help His Development Loan Move for Manchester United Youngster Facundo Pellistri According to Manchester United journalist Jonathan Shrager, the deal should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3655,"featured_media":580995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,2,6,3,7188,28],"tags":[7865,7868,6805,142,6589,36,7337,4989,5337,136],"class_list":["post-580962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united","category-featured","category-la-liga","category-premier-league","category-rumours","category-transfers","tag-deportivo-alaves","tag-deportivo-alaves-transfer-news","tag-facundo-pellistri","tag-la-liga","tag-la-liga-20-21","tag-manchester-united","tag-manchester-united-news","tag-manchester-united-transfers","tag-spanish-football","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}