{"id":329436,"date":"2026-05-05T07:46:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=329436"},"modified":"2026-05-05T07:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:16:30","slug":"manchester-united-eye-transfer-move-for-38million-west-ham-star-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/manchester-united-eye-transfer-move-for-38million-west-ham-star-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United eye transfer move for \u00a338million West Ham star | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mateus Fernandes has enjoyed a superb season for West Ham (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Manchester United are eyeing a move for West Ham midfielder Mateus Fernandes in the summertime transfer window.<\/p>\n

While the long run of Michael Carrick is yet to be resolved, United are already pressing ahead with their recruitment plans despite no decision yet having been made on their next everlasting head coach.<\/p>\n

No matter who’s within the dugout, strengthening in central midfield will represent a priority given the upcoming departure of Casemiro and United\u2019s determination to dump Manuel Ugarte who has been a serious disappointment since his move from Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n

Kobbie Mainoo has committed his future to his boyhood club, however the Red Devils wish to sign at the very least two more midfielders to go with their current options.<\/p>\n

The likes of Elliot Anderson, Carlos Baleba, Adam Wharton and Adam Scott are all on United\u2019s radar, while Aston Villa\u2019s Morgan Rogers has also emerged as a goal to turn into the club\u2019s long-term successor to Bruno Fernandes within the No.10 role.<\/p>\n

Fernandes, meanwhile, has been added to the list of potential targets, in response to the Telegraph<\/a>, following his impressive form for the struggling Hammers.<\/p>\n

The east London club\u2019s likely relegation will force them to sell a few of their prize assets, including Fernandes who moved to the London Stadium from Southampton in a \u00a338million deal last summer. <\/p>\n

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Mateus Fernandes cost West Ham \u00a338 million (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despite Manioo\u2019s improvement, which culminated in a brand new contract last week, former United skipper Roy Keane remains to be not convinced he’s a player the club must be trying to construct their midfield around. <\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m still not convinced with him. I believe he\u2019s a very good young player, he\u2019s still a child, he\u2019s only played 70-odd first team games,\u2019 Keane said.<\/p>\n

\u2018He\u2019s obviously been involved within the England squad, but he still hasn\u2019t convinced me. I hope he does [start regularly again for United] next 12 months. I could be a harsh critic of midfield players, I used to be very critical of myself. I still think the child has to do rather a lot more. Has he got a likelihood? After all he\u2019s got a likelihood. He\u2019s still learning.<\/p>\n

Keane questioned whether the academy graduate possesses the raw athleticism required for the fashionable engine room. especially during high-intensity transition moments.<\/p>\n

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Casemiro is ready to go away Man Utd this summer (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018The one problem is, when people discuss if he\u2019s explosive enough, are you able to improve on that in case you\u2019re not quick off the mark?\u2019 Keane asked.<\/p>\n

\u2018The last six months can be quite good for him. For a young player at a giant club, he comes on the scene and getting all of the headlines, doing well after which getting involved with England.<\/p>\n

\u2018The previous few months, people have been talking about him going out on loan, but I at all times said that sometimes you could have to sit down and learn, watch the sport and the team.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Mateus Fernandes has enjoyed a superb season for West Ham (Picture: Getty) Manchester United are eyeing a move for West Ham midfielder Mateus Fernandes in the summertime transfer window. While the long run of Michael Carrick is yet to be resolved, United are already pressing ahead with their recruitment plans despite no decision yet having […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20686],"tags":[51361,1164,5479,6867,6707,969,795,3006,1458,1883],"class_list":["post-329436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-38million","tag-eye","tag-football","tag-ham","tag-manchester","tag-move","tag-star","tag-transfer","tag-united","tag-west"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329439,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329436\/revisions\/329439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}