{"id":626470,"date":"2023-08-12T10:57:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T14:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=626470"},"modified":"2023-08-12T11:55:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T15:55:09","slug":"eric-bailly-united-defender-transfer-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/12\/eric-bailly-united-defender-transfer-update\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Reached an Agreement\u2019: 100k P\/W Manchester United Player Now Looks Set to Leave Old Trafford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1689948122078732288\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Fabrizio Romano<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, the overhaul of Manchester United&#8217;s centre-back options continues as defender Eric Bailly has moved a step closer to moving to the Turkish top-flight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">[metabet_core_side_odds_tile query=&#8221;soe\/manchester_united&#8221; size=&#8221;350&#215;300&#8243; site_id=&#8221;metabet-website&#8221;]<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">United Looking to Sell Eric Bailly and Harry Maguire<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Watch<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">: Our Premier League Predictions For the New Season<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I (Probably) Insulted Your Club - Our Premier League Predictions For the New Season\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8uXqcL07DJg?start=1&#038;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<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Eric Bailly Edges Closer to Old Trafford Exit<\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Bailly looks set to join Harry Maguire out of Old Trafford this summer, with the former United captain seemingly on the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/thewesthamway\/posts\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">verge of joining<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0West Ham United. The England international has made 175 appearances for his current employers, scoring seven times in that period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Read More:<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/11\/manchester-united-pushing-for-benjamin-pavard\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u2018Working on a Verbal Agreement\u2019: Manchester United Pushing for \u2018Versatile\u2019 Bayern Munich Star<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The 29-year-old Ivory Coast international Bailly has made 113 appearances for the Red Devils, scoring once, since his arrival in 2016. He has consistently picked up injuries during this time &#8211; severely affecting his chances of becoming a regular at the Theatre of Dreams. His performance levels have dropped when called upon as a result, and apart from a couple of impressive cup performances over the years, we have not seen the best of the defender since his first season at the club.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">New Start in Turkey<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to Fabrizio Romano, Turkish side Besiktas have agreed personal terms for the out of favour defender. There had been rumours that he may move to the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/skysports_sheth\/status\/1683050799142780933\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Saudi league<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0with a couple of clubs interested, but Turkey appears to be his next destination. Besiktas finished 3rd last season and are competing in the Europa Conference League qualifying rounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Read More:<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/08\/zion-suzuki-snubs-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Player Snubs Man Utd to Join Other Club After Reds Agreed Fee to Sign Him<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The move would be beneficial to both sides as it could be argued that Bailly is the fifth-choice centre-back for United while being on a reported\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/salarysport.com\/football\/player\/eric-bailly\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">100k per week<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, with just a year left to run on his contract with the option of another year. Besiktas have an injury crisis at the back, with two current centre-backs expected to be out for several months. If the deal goes through, he would join Daniel Amartey, Arthur Masuaku and Ante Rebic, who have arrived from Leicester, West Ham and AC Milan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span>Featured Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vegaseddie\/5293656547\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul<\/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>According to\u00a0Fabrizio Romano, the overhaul of Manchester United&#8217;s centre-back options continues as defender Eric Bailly has moved a step closer to moving to the Turkish top-flight. [metabet_core_side_odds_tile query=&#8221;soe\/manchester_united&#8221; size=&#8221;350&#215;300&#8243; site_id=&#8221;metabet-website&#8221;] United Looking to Sell Eric Bailly and Harry Maguire Watch: Our Premier League Predictions For the New Season Eric Bailly Edges Closer to Old Trafford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4692,"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],"tags":[9949,719,7380],"class_list":["post-626470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-besiktas-transfer-rumours","tag-eric-bailly","tag-manchester-united-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626470","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\/4692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626470\/revisions"}],"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=626470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}