{"id":616027,"date":"2022-08-09T10:52:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T14:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=616027"},"modified":"2022-08-09T10:55:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T14:55:30","slug":"manchester-united-adrien-rabiot-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/09\/manchester-united-adrien-rabiot-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabrizio Romano: Manchester United &#8216;Ready to Complete&#8217; Deal for Player With &#8216;More Baggage Than a Kardashian&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1556967754242179073\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/09\/manchester-united-marko-arnautovic-transfer-end\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/09\/west-ham-target-kostic-to-juventus\/\" target=\"_self\">Juventus<\/a> are &#8220;ready to compete&#8221; a deal for Adrien Rabiot, although personal terms are still to be nailed down.<\/p>\n<p>The Manchester Evening News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/sport\/football\/adrien-rabiot-man-united-transfer-24699715\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chimed in on the move<\/a> with very mixed feelings. Calling Rabiot an &#8220;egocentric French midfielder&#8221; with &#8220;more baggage than a Kardashian&#8221; who they claim was persona non grata at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/04\/psg-midfielder-wijnaldum-signs-for-roma\/\" target=\"_self\">Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> before his departure from the French side. However, they understand that the Red Devils&#8217; current need to improve is far greater than potential dressing room problems.<\/p>\n<h2>Adrien Rabiot Deal Close to Completion<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Manchester United and Juventus are ready to complete Adrien Rabiot deal as agreement has been reached on Monday &#8211; but personal terms are still in discussion. \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MUFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talks ongoing between Veronique Rabiot and Man Utd, after direct call between ten Hag &amp; Adrien yesterday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yRzJa5fgtP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/yRzJa5fgtP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1556967754242179073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Midfield Prowess<\/h3>\n<p>With Erik ten Hag&#8217;s desired reunion with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/08\/frenkie-de-jong-manchester-united-pressure\/\" target=\"_self\">Frenkie de Jong<\/a> currently reminding everyone of the Suez Canal blockage in 2021, his side has moved on to a new target. An embarrassing 2-1 defeat to Brighton &amp; Hove Albion on the opening day of the Premier League has further exposed the need for improvements in the squad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/08\/manchester-united-bid-sergej-milinkovic-savic\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United Make Opening Bid for \u2018Unbelievable\u2019 De Jong Alternative; \u00a355 million Offer Should Be Accepted<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In steps the 27-year-old Frenchman, who is known to take games by the scruff of the neck and help control them from the midfield. While he won&#8217;t fix every issue at the club, he will improve an area of the pitch in need of a rebuild remarkably.<\/p>\n<h3>A Panic Move?<\/h3>\n<p>There is a question to be raised about whether this is a panic buy from a side that just suffered an embarrassing defeat, and that&#8217;s a valid question. What is clear, however, is that the squad needs strengthening and the Juventus man offers just that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/06\/chelsea-manchester-united-target-benjamin-sesko\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea and Manchester United Target Benjamin Sesko to Make Decision on Future Over the Next Week<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While this has certainly not been the start to life in Manchester that Ten Hag would have wanted, there is still time to turn things around in this transfer window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Fabrizio Romano, Manchester United and Juventus are &#8220;ready to compete&#8221; a deal for Adrien Rabiot, although personal terms are still to be nailed down. The Manchester Evening News chimed in on the move with very mixed feelings. Calling Rabiot an &#8220;egocentric French midfielder&#8221; with &#8220;more baggage than a Kardashian&#8221; who they claim was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":616043,"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":[18,2,1362,3,7188,5],"tags":[950,7380],"class_list":["post-616027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united","category-featured","category-juventus","category-premier-league","category-rumours","category-serie-a","tag-adrien-rabiot","tag-manchester-united-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Joseph Howes, Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616027","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}