{"id":379392,"date":"2021-07-31T18:08:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T17:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=379392"},"modified":"2021-07-31T18:09:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T17:09:11","slug":"how-fletcher-helped-convince-varane-to-snub-chelsea-psg-for-man-utd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=379392","title":{"rendered":"How Fletcher helped convince Varane to snub Chelsea, PSG for Man Utd"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester United new signing, Raphael Varane, snubbed last-minute approaches from both Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain after speaking with the club\u2019s technical director, Darren Fletcher, ESPN reports.<br \/>\nMan United agreed to a fee worth around \u00a340million for Varane, who said his goodbyes to his Real Madrid teammates on Friday.<br \/>\nChelsea and PSG were invited to bid for Varane by Real Madrid before Man United struck a deal with Los Blancos for the Frenchman.<br \/>\nChelsea boss, Thomas Tuchel, is keen to sign a new defender with talks for Jules Kounde advancing and would have jumped at the chance to bring the World Cup winner to Stamford Bridge, while a move to PSG would have seen Varane reunited with Sergio Ramos.<br \/>\nBut the Red Devils\u2019 early conversations with Varane were so encouraging that the centre-back outright snubbed Chelsea and PSG\u2019s interest, insisting he only wanted to move to Old Trafford.<br \/>\nThe biggest contributor to the success of the talks was Fletcher, with the newspaper claiming Varane was \u2018particularly swayed\u2019 by what the Scot had to say about Man United.<br \/>\nFletcher, who was recently appointed by Man United in March, led talks with Varane\u2019s representatives, while the club\u2019s CEO, Ed Woodward, was responsible for agreeing a fee with Real Madrid.<\/div>\n<p><strong><em>(DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United new signing, Raphael Varane, snubbed last-minute approaches from both Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain after speaking with the club\u2019s technical director, Darren Fletcher, ESPN reports. Man United agreed to a fee worth around \u00a340million for Varane, who said his goodbyes to his Real Madrid teammates on Friday. Chelsea and PSG were invited to bid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":379393,"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":[17130,8922,13030],"class_list":["post-379392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fletcher","tag-man-united","tag-varane"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379392","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=379392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/379393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}