{"id":624941,"date":"2023-07-04T17:31:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T21:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=624941"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:51:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:51:39","slug":"manchester-united-sofyan-amrabat-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/07\/04\/manchester-united-sofyan-amrabat-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Sports Man Drops Update on Man Utd Move for Bargain \u00a326m &#8216;Monster&#8217; After Reports Personal Terms Agreed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/07\/03\/manchester-united-rasmus-hojlund-keen\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> are eyeing a move for Forientina&#8217;s midfield <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlogarganese\/status\/1601620063106105346?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;monster&#8221;<\/a> Sofyan Amrabat, claims <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsPL\/status\/1676252028186632192\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dharmesh Sheth<\/a>. United have been chasing midfield reinforcements throughout this window and Amrabat is the latest name to be linked with a transfer to the club this summer.<\/p>\n<h2>Manchester United Interested in Sofyan Amrabat<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Manchester United are looking at Fiorentina midfielder Sofyan Amrabat \ud83d\udc40<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yx2eGBWEMu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/yx2eGBWEMu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsPL\/status\/1676252028186632192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Update on United&#8217;s Midfield Pursuit<\/h3>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/12311963\/mason-mount-manchester-united-agree-deal-of-55m-with-chelsea-to-sign-england-star#:~:text=Manchester%20United%20have%20agreed%20a,with%20an%20extra%20year%20option.\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agreeing a deal<\/a> to sign Mason Mount for \u00a355 million, United aren&#8217;t stopping in their pursuit of further midfield quality. As Sheth says, last month, United asked to be kept informed of any developments regarding Brighton midfielder Moises Caicedo.<\/p>\n<p>However, with the Seagulls holding firm in their valuation of the midfielder, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4615730\/2023\/06\/16\/moises-caicedo-chelsea-brighton-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> to be as much as \u00a3100 million, a deal looks difficult to complete and the Red Devils have turned their attentions elsewhere with Amrabat now on their radar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/07\/04\/mason-mount-manchester-united-chelsea-reaction\/\" target=\"_self\">Fans Furious as &#8216;Idolised&#8217; Star Set to Join Manchester United<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old&#8217;s ferocious midfield displays were integral to Morocco&#8217;s extraordinary run to the World Cup 2022 semi-finals, and it seems they have earned him some interest from the very highest level.<\/p>\n<h3>Personal Terms Reportedly Agreed With Man Utd<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiorentina.it\/su-gonzalez-si-muovono-i-soldi-dallarabia-amrabat-lo-united-puo-sbloccare-la-situazione\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reports from Italy<\/a> claim that United have already come to an &#8220;economic agreement&#8221; with Amrabat: in other words, personal terms have been agreed. While this does not emerge from a top-tier source, it is certainly a reason for hope that a deal could move along quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Amrabat has only one year left on his current contract with Fiorentina, but the aforementioned report states that the Italian side want at least \u00a326 million for the all-action midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the Moroccan&#8217;s quality and bargain price, it would be wise for United to get this move done as quickly as they can.<\/p>\n<h3>Sofyan Amrabat: A Wise Move For The Red Devils?<\/h3>\n<p>If a deal for Amrabat is to get finalised, his role would be to provide cover for current starting defensive midfielder Casemiro while potentially challenging for a spot in that role.<\/p>\n<p>With United back in the Champions League next season, Erik ten Hag needs depth to be able to challenge from all fronts and Amrabat can certainly provide that.<\/p>\n<p><em>Last Word on<\/em>\u00a0<em>Football\u00a0<\/em>have taken a look not just at the central defensive-midfielder position, but at the full starting 11 United could field next season in a recent YouTube video. Watch below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Manchester United Will Line Up Under Erik ten Hag Next Season\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gxysc8j5UJo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Main image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/94MnEt\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul on Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United are eyeing a move for Forientina&#8217;s midfield &#8220;monster&#8221; Sofyan Amrabat, claims Dharmesh Sheth. United have been chasing midfield reinforcements throughout this window and Amrabat is the latest name to be linked with a transfer to the club this summer. Manchester United Interested in Sofyan Amrabat Manchester United are looking at Fiorentina midfielder Sofyan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4722,"featured_media":624772,"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":[18,3,7188,5],"tags":[7380,9140],"class_list":["post-624941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united","category-premier-league","category-rumours","category-serie-a","tag-manchester-united-transfer-rumours","tag-sofyan-amrabat"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624941","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\/4722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666501,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624941\/revisions\/666501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}