{"id":620801,"date":"2023-01-03T02:42:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T07:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=620801"},"modified":"2023-01-03T02:42:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T07:42:50","slug":"manchester-united-dusan-vlahovic-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/01\/03\/manchester-united-dusan-vlahovic-pursuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabrizio Romano Rates Manchester United\u2019s Chances of Signing \u2018Extraordinary Striker\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/01\/02\/manchester-united-want-new-striker-signing-in-january\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> could find it difficult to sign Juventus striker Dusan Vlahovic on loan in January, claims <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y-KoIaOsDtI\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>. The Red Devils are currently on the search for a new striker after <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/11\/23\/cristiano-ronaldo-leaves-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">terminating the contract of Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n<h2>Manchester United Could Struggle With Dusan Vlahovic Loan Deal<\/h2>\n<h3>United Have Always Admired Vlahovic<\/h3>\n<p>The Manchester side are surveying a lot of options as they pursue a new centre-forward in the winter transfer window but could struggle with the financial aspect of it. Romano adds that they have always been great admirers of Vlahovic after seeing his impressive work in Serie A over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is also added that Juventus are not going to accept a loan offer for the Serbian striker after having signed him for over \u00a360 million last January. Even though the club are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2022\/12\/02\/uefa-opens-investigation-into-juventus-over-alleged-false-accounting\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">held up in a UEFA investigation<\/a> amid false accounting allegations, they are unlikely to be forced to sell their top players &#8211; like Vlahovic &#8211;\u00a0 for cheap this month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/01\/02\/manchester-united-marcus-thuram-transfer-pursuit\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United Eyeing Potential Move for Marcus Thuram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That means United can find it difficult to convince the <em>Bianconeri<\/em> to sell Dusan Vlahovic, who was hailed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juvefc.com\/he-is-an-extraordinary-player-tacchinardi-has-nothing-but-praise-for-vlahovic\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as an &#8216;extraordinary player&#8217;<\/a> by ex-Juventus star Alessio Tacchinardi last year. Erik ten Hag is eyeing a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/12\/27\/manchester-united-looking-at-alternatives\/\" target=\"_self\">potential loan move for a new centre-forward<\/a> after losing out on the addition of Cody Gakpo.<\/p>\n<h3>Interesting Window for the Red Devils<\/h3>\n<p>After having spent over \u00a3200 million in the summer transfer window, the Red Devils have run out of transfer funds and are going to be forced to look at short-term deals only in the\u00a0 January transfer window. That means they will have to be extremely astute with their search for a new striker, as well as convincing them and their parent club at loaning them the player for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/12\/29\/manchester-united-sale-planned-early-2023\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United Sale Could Happen in Early 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barcelona forward Memphis Depay is <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/11\/26\/manchester-united-memphis-depay-january-move\/\" target=\"_self\">someone they could permanently re-sign for cheap<\/a>, as he reportedly wants to leave the club with six months remaining on his contract. There are other options as well, but not exactly a plethora of possibilities either. With Ten Hag only having Anthony Martial as a natural number nine option, it remains to be seen who he can convince to join his club on loan in the winter window.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United could find it difficult to sign Juventus striker Dusan Vlahovic on loan in January, claims Fabrizio Romano. The Red Devils are currently on the search for a new striker after terminating the contract of Cristiano Ronaldo in November. Manchester United Could Struggle With Dusan Vlahovic Loan Deal United Have Always Admired Vlahovic The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":620812,"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":[8500,7380],"class_list":["post-620801","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-dusan-vlahovic","tag-manchester-united-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620801","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=620801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}