{"id":369774,"date":"2021-07-02T15:37:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T14:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=369774"},"modified":"2021-07-02T20:45:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T19:45:18","slug":"real-madrid-gives-varane-approval-to-join-man-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=369774","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid gives Varane approval to join Man United"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Real Madrid has given defender Raphael Varane\u2019s agent approval to hold talks with Manchester United.<br \/>\nMarca said Real Madrid has now accepted that Varane will not sign an extension to his current contract, which expires next summer, and the Los Blancos are now actively looking to sell the France international.<br \/>\nVarane has drawn the interest of Man United this summer.<br \/>\nAfter securing a \u00a373.1m deal to sign Jadon Sancho from Borussia Dortmund on Thursday, Man United are now focusing on recruiting a new centre-back to bolster the Red Devils\u2019 defensive options ahead of next season.<br \/>\nVarane is Man United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer\u2019s preferred option this summer.<br \/>\nAlthough Villarreal\u2019s Pau Torres is also on Man United\u2019s shortlist if an agreement for Varane cannot be reached.<br \/>\nThe report added that Real Madrid would be open to an offer of \u20ac50m (\u00a343m) for the 28-year-old centre-back and have now authorised the player\u2019s agent to negotiate directly with Man United over a potential deal.<\/div>\n<p><strong><em>(DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid has given defender Raphael Varane\u2019s agent approval to hold talks with Manchester United. Marca said Real Madrid has now accepted that Varane will not sign an extension to his current contract, which expires next summer, and the Los Blancos are now actively looking to sell the France international. Varane has drawn the interest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":369775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1406,5278,13030],"class_list":["post-369774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-manchester-united","tag-real-madrid","tag-varane"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/369775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}