{"id":616417,"date":"2022-08-17T05:29:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T09:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=616417"},"modified":"2022-08-17T05:29:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T09:29:48","slug":"manchester-united-alvaro-morata-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/17\/manchester-united-alvaro-morata-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Barring an Unforeseen Turn&#8217;: How Close Manchester United Are to Signing \u2018Amazing\u2019 182-Goal Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/16\/cristiano-ronaldo-manchester-united-contract\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> might have suffered some bad news in the chase for Atletico Madrid striker Alvaro Morata who is set to stay with the La Liga club, claims insider<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanShrager\/status\/1559588405012566024?s=20&amp;t=Sq1JQZpSnXmSwyGXjw7oXw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Jonathan Shrager<\/a>. The Red Devils are desperately looking for a new forward who can add more goals to the team that has only scored one goal in the Premier League this season.<\/p>\n<h2>Manchester United Target Alvaro Morata Set for Atletico Madrid Stay<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As things stand, barring an unforeseen turn, there is a belief that \u00c1lvaro Morata will stay at Atletico Madrid<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jonathan Shrager (@JonathanShrager) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanShrager\/status\/1559588405012566024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Only \u2018Unforeseen Circumstance\u2019 Can Trigger Morata\u2019s Move to Old Trafford<\/h3>\n<p>The La Liga club are now confident of keeping the Spain international for this season after he returned from his loan at Juventus earlier in the summer. Shrager adds that the only thing that can help Morata get a move to United is if something &#8216;unforeseen&#8217; happens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/16\/cristiano-ronaldo-replacement-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Finding Cristiano Ronaldo Replacement \u2018Difficult\u2019 for Manchester United<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But if that doesn&#8217;t occur, then the ex-Chelsea striker is going to stay at Atletico this season. This comes despite the fact that recent reports suggested there was a<a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/3502650\/2022\/08\/12\/manchester-united-transfers-strikers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0&#8220;genuine possibility&#8221;<\/a> that Morata would join the Red Devils this summer.<\/p>\n<h3>United\u2019s Summer Striker Signing Chase Continues<\/h3>\n<p>With none of the Red Devils&#8217; players having scored a goal so far this season &#8211; their only goal of the new Premier League campaign&#8217;s opening two games came off a Brighton player &#8211; signing a striker this summer is vital. The club have also softened their stance on Cristiano Ronaldo&#8217;s future and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/12674280\/cristiano-ronaldo-striker-may-be-allowed-to-leave-manchester-united-if-erik-ten-hag-backs-departure\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">are ready to sell him<\/a> if the right offer comes in.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Martial has picked up an injury very early into the season and can&#8217;t be relied upon to consistently deliver. They were linked with a shock move for Austria international Marko Arnautovic but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11667\/12669082\/marko-arnautovic-manchester-united-pull-out-of-deal-for-bologna-forward-after-7-6m-bid-rejected\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">then walked away from it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/15\/manchester-united-jamie-vardy-leicester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United Linked With Transfer for Former Premier League Winner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not signing Morata may well hurt the Red Devils. The Spaniard has been a journeyman in his career, having played for the likes of Real Madrid, Chelsea, Juventus and Atletico Madrid. He has scored 182 career goals and has started this season well, netting twice in the opening game-week win for his side against Getafe. The 29-year-old has also impressed on an international stage for Spain, with their manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurosport.com\/football\/euro-2020\/2021\/luis-enrique-praises-amazing-alvaro-morata-after-spain-beat-croatia-to-reach-euro-2020-quarter-final_sto8394865\/story.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luis Enrique hailing him as &#8216;amazing&#8217; during Euro 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udf99| \u00c1lvaro Morata: &quot;I will always give everything on the pitch. There can be days when I play better or worse, but I will always give everything for my teammates and for this shirt, that&#39;s for sure.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ENqLDhNde9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ENqLDhNde9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Atletico Universe (@atletiuniverse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atletiuniverse\/status\/1559298905354801155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United might have suffered some bad news in the chase for Atletico Madrid striker Alvaro Morata who is set to stay with the La Liga club, claims insider Jonathan Shrager. The Red Devils are desperately looking for a new forward who can add more goals to the team that has only scored one goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":616425,"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":[3,6,18,7188],"tags":[1193,9388,7380],"class_list":["post-616417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-la-liga","category-manchester-united","category-rumours","tag-alvaro-morata","tag-atletico-madrid-transfer-rumours","tag-manchester-united-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Joseph Howes, Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616417","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\/4218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}