{"id":630163,"date":"2023-09-28T04:03:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T08:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=630163"},"modified":"2023-09-28T04:03:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T08:03:46","slug":"manchester-united-hannibal-mejbri-contract-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/09\/28\/manchester-united-hannibal-mejbri-contract-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Open to Discuss\u2019: Fabrizio Romano Reveals Man Utd Plan to Offer New Contract to \u2018Phenomenal\u2019 Youngster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Despite the inconsistent start to the 2023\/24 Premier League season by Manchester United, the club appear to have been impressed with the progression shown by young midfielder Hannibal Mejbri.<\/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;lastwordonsports&#8221;]<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Man Utd Aiming to Offer New Contract to Hannibal Mejbri<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mejbri\u2019s Thoughts on New Contract<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1707081705142538331\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Fabrizio Romano<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0has claimed that Manchester United are looking to offer a new long-term contract to Hannibal Mejbri after being impressed with his bright start to the 2023\/24 season. He adds that talks could start soon over a new deal.<\/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\/09\/12\/manchester-united-rasmus-hojlund-forward-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Graeme Souness States New \u00a372 Million Forward is \u2018One Hell of a Gamble\u2019 \u2013 But He Is Overlooking Key Attribute<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Tunisian midfielder&#8217;s current contract is set to expire in 2024, and the Red Devils can extend it to 2025 if they want to. Romano claims that Hannibal is &#8220;open to discuss&#8221; a new contract later this year, with the youngster currently focused on earning more game-time this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Romano also states that Sevilla wanted to sign him during the summer transfer window in July and are still tracking his development at Old Trafford. United appear keen to agree to this new long-term deal to ward off interest from potential suitors.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What Has Mejbri Done This Season?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The 20-year-old midfielder appears to be the latest youth academy graduate to break through into the first team this season and has been enjoying a good run of form after the September international break. He scored his first Premier League goal for the club with an impressive strike in the 3-1 loss to Brighton and also won over fans with his display in their 1-0 win over Burnley.<\/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\/09\/21\/man-utd-andre-onana-ten-hag\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u2018If We Didn\u2019t Win, it\u2019s Because of Me\u2019: Andre Onana\u2019s Brave Admission Masks Man Utd\u2019s Real Crisis Under Erik Ten Hag<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The youngster appears to have earned Erik ten Hag\u2019s admiration, with the club wanting to reward him with a new long-term deal. Mejbri, who spent last season on loan at Birmingham City, was hailed\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/football\/news\/man-utd-loanee-breaking-records-28312467\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">as &#8220;phenomenal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0last season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the inconsistent start to the 2023\/24 Premier League season by Manchester United, the club appear to have been impressed with the progression shown by young midfielder Hannibal Mejbri. [metabet_core_side_odds_tile query=&#8221;soe\/manchester_united&#8221; size=&#8221;350&#215;300&#8243; site_id=&#8221;lastwordonsports&#8221;] Man Utd Aiming to Offer New Contract to Hannibal Mejbri Mejbri\u2019s Thoughts on New Contract Fabrizio Romano\u00a0has claimed that Manchester United are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":629234,"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":[3,18,7188],"tags":[5051,8156,7337],"class_list":["post-630163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-manchester-united","category-rumours","tag-hannibal-mejbri","tag-manchester-united-contracts","tag-manchester-united-news"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630163","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=630163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}