{"id":624104,"date":"2023-06-01T12:14:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T16:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=624104"},"modified":"2023-06-01T12:14:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T16:14:43","slug":"kim-min-jae-manchester-united-psg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/06\/01\/kim-min-jae-manchester-united-psg\/","title":{"rendered":"Set for Move: &#8216;Monster&#8217; Man Utd Target Now Ready for PL Transfer as UCL Club Pull Out of Race to Sign Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilmattino.it\/sport\/sscnapoli\/calciomercato_napoli_ultime_notizie_oggi-7412335.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">target<\/a> Kim Min-jae is now set to move to the Premier League according to <a href=\"https:\/\/rmcsport.bfmtv.com\/football\/transferts\/en-direct-mercato-les-infos-et-rumeurs-du-1er-juin-2023-en-live_LN-202306010150.html#article_198628\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrice Hawkins<\/a> (translated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsfrance.com\/2023\/psg-abandons-pursuit-of-napoli-defender-kim-min-jae-as-premier-league-move-nears\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Get French Football News<\/a>). This comes with Paris Saint-Germain having now pulled out of the race to sign the South Korean international for financial reasons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/05\/28\/wout-weghorst-manchester-united-absolutely-disgraceful\/\" target=\"_self\">Wout Weghorst Manchester United Spell Labeled &#8216;Absolutely Disgraceful&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Kim Min-jae Set for Premier League Move; Manchester United Lying in Wait<\/h2>\n<h3>United Looking to Increase Strength in Depth, Kim Min-jae Would Be Perfect<\/h3>\n<p>Erik ten Hag&#8217;s United side desperately need to improve their strength in depth, and signing Kim &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2022\/nov\/23\/south-korea-kim-min-jae-the-monster-napoli-world-cup\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nicknamed the &#8220;monster&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; would be a perfect way to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, United have four natural centre-backs in their squad &#8211; not including Luke Shaw who is more than capable of filling in but is more naturally a left-back &#8211; but with club captain Harry Maguire now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12145513\/Manchester-United-set-pay-Harry-Maguire-10MILLION-leaves-Old-Trafford-summer.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expected to leave in the summer<\/a>, they will need to bring in at least one more, and it is vital that it be a top player.<\/p>\n<p>When United&#8217;s first-choice centre-back pair Lisandro Martinez and Raphael Varane got injured at the business end of the 2022\/23 campaign, it threw Ten Hag&#8217;s side off course, and they lost their momentum as a result. While eventually the duo of Shaw and Victor Lindelof was found to be an effective stop-gap, they did not have quite the same tenacity and ball-progressing quality that the French-Argentine pair are known for.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"iHnqH6iVR61tmIF9p1qm1A\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1494036017\" 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:'iHnqH6iVR61tmIF9p1qm1A',sig:'T6EY9wThLeRIutgOWb9W6AkGWCHzYhYWENC2jdLm2II=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1494036017',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Should the Red Devils succeed in their pursuit of Kim, it would represent not only a huge improvement in their depth &#8211; which would allow Ten Hag to rotate more and prevent any injuries from happening in the first place &#8211; but would also provide some real competition for Martinez and Varane to push them to their very best.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/06\/01\/manchester-united-chelsea-manuel-ugarte-hijack\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United to Swoop in and Steal 22-Year-Old Chelsea Target; They Will Pay His Release Clause<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United target Kim Min-jae is now set to move to the Premier League according to Fabrice Hawkins (translated by Get French Football News). This comes with Paris Saint-Germain having now pulled out of the race to sign the South Korean international for financial reasons. Read More:\u00a0Wout Weghorst Manchester United Spell Labeled &#8216;Absolutely Disgraceful&#8217; Kim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3312,"featured_media":624105,"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":[3,18,1367,7188],"tags":[9384,7380],"class_list":["post-624104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-manchester-united","category-paris-saint-germain","category-rumours","tag-kim-min-jae","tag-manchester-united-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Joseph Howes, Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624104","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\/3312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}