{"id":614101,"date":"2022-06-22T23:22:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T03:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614101"},"modified":"2022-06-22T23:22:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T03:22:26","slug":"malcolm-ebioei-to-reject-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/22\/malcolm-ebioei-to-reject-manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United Dealt Transfer Blow as Target They \u2018Pushed Hard\u2019 for Looks Set to Join Fellow Premier League Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1539666591260213248\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Fabrizio Romano<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, Derby County youngster Malcolm Ebiowei is on the verge of joining <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/20\/crystal-palace-west-bromwich-albion-sam-johnstone\/\" target=\"_self\">Crystal Palace<\/a> on a 5-year deal after completing a medical at the Selhurst Park club. The player has attracted a lot of interest after appearing 29 times and scoring eight goals for the Pride Park club this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">English talent Malcolm Ebiowei won\u2019t join Manchester United. He\u2019s set to sign his contract with Crystal Palace after medicals completed this week, it\u2019s a done deal. \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd35\ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CPFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CPFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ebiowei will leave Derby County to join Palace &#8211; contract will be valid until June 2027. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EMtfJiwIbS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/EMtfJiwIbS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1539661116280049664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Malcolm Ebiowei Chooses Selhurst Park Over Old Trafford<\/h2>\n<h3>Ebiowei to Bolster Crystal Palace<\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ebiowei enjoyed an impressive season for the Championship team. The youngster became an integral part of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/03\/30\/wayne-rooney-manchester-united-dream\/\" target=\"_self\">Wayne Rooney<\/a>&#8216;s team and impressed on the right-wing.\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/17\/manchester-united-pushing-hard-youngster\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Manchester United<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> were linked with a move for him, but the youngster has made his preference clear by agreeing to move to London.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He joined Derby County after spending four years in the Arsenal academy. After leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/22\/arsenal-gabriel-jesus-negotiations\/\" target=\"_self\">Arsenal<\/a>, the England under-16 international spent 12 months in Scotland with Rangers before moving to Pride Park.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Soon after breaking into the Derby County first team, Ebiowei won the plaudits of his manager following a 1-1 draw against Coventry City: \u201cI thought he was excellent all game &#8211; the best player on the pitch.\u201d Rooney said. \u201cIt was one of the best performances I have seen from a young player, consistently for 90 minutes, in a long time.\u201d Winning this praise from Rooney shows what a prodigious talent he is.<\/p>\n<h3>What Ebiowei Brings to Selhurst Park<\/h3>\n<p>The Derby County youngster has won widespread praise for his performances in s struggling team last season. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/10\/every-championship-free-agent-2022\/\" target=\"_self\">Championship<\/a> team enjoyed a nightmare campaign on and off the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the team&#8217;s difficulties, he&#8217;s had a great attitude all season as expressed by Rooney and the Derby County hierarchy at various points this season. He&#8217;s quick, direct, and brave on the ball. Ebiowei is brilliant at tacking on players in one on one situations. He is an exciting prospect, and this could prove to be a real coup for Crystal Palace and a missed opportunity for Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>With the restrictions in place for their takeover, stopping the club from arranging contract extensions it&#8217;s made it an impossible task to keep their young prized asset at Pride Park, as his contract expires this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to\u00a0Fabrizio Romano, Derby County youngster Malcolm Ebiowei is on the verge of joining Crystal Palace on a 5-year deal after completing a medical at the Selhurst Park club. The player has attracted a lot of interest after appearing 29 times and scoring eight goals for the Pride Park club this season. English talent Malcolm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":614110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[12,18,30,3,28],"tags":[9264],"class_list":["post-614101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crystal-palace","category-manchester-united","category-news","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-malcolm-ebiowei"],"modified_by":"Dylan Guest, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614101","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\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}