{"id":15492,"date":"2026-07-08T18:25:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=15492"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:25:32","slug":"here-we-go-fabrizio-romano-confirms-andrey-santos-deal-struck-between-united-and-chelsea-man-united-news-and-transfer-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=15492","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Here we go!&#8221; Fabrizio Romano confirms Andrey Santos deal struck between United and Chelsea &#8211; Man United News And Transfer News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"penci-post-entry-inner\">\n<p>\t\t\t<i class=\"penci-post-countview-number-check\" style=\"display:none\">6<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--Article Start--><br \/>Transfer guru Fabrizio Romano has confirmed that Manchester United have reached a full agreement with Chelsea to sign midfield sensation Andrey Santos.<\/p>\n<p>News broke minutes ago via the ever-reliable David Ornstein that a deal had been struck for the midfield enforcer, and Romano has now added his seal of approval to the story.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd34 Andrey Santos to Manchester United, here we go! Deal in place with medical now booked in next 24h for Brazilian midfielder.#MUFC to pay \u00a350m matching price asked by Chelsea plus 10% sell-on clause.<\/p>\n<p>Contract until June 2031 to be signed tomorrow \u2014 follows @David_Ornstein. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l0o2LFXBtC\">pic.twitter.com\/l0o2LFXBtC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) July 8, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>More details emerge<\/h3>\n<p>As previously reported, United will pay a \u00a348 million fee plus \u00a32 million in easily achieved add-ons. Chelsea will retain a 10% sell-on fee.<\/p>\n<p>Romano claims that the deal could be completed as soon as tomorrow. He says:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMedical now booked in next 24h for Brazilian midfielder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContract until June 2031 to be signed tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a quiet period in the transfer market after losing out on Mateus Fernandes to Tottenham Hotspur, INEOS have acted rapidly in getting this deal over the line.<\/p>\n<h3>24-hour turnaround<\/h3>\n<p>Rumours of United\u2019s interest in the Rio de Janeiro man only really began to build in the last few days. By contrast, agreement was struck for Santos\u2019 countryman Ederson weeks ago, but the deal has still not been completed due to the player being called up for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>If indeed Santos signs tomorrow, he is likely to beat his compatriot to become the Red Devils\u2019 first signing of the summer.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Brazil international represents excellent value for money in this summer\u2019s inflated market. He is an exciting talent, with many seeing him as a natural successor to the outgoing Casemiro.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image Shaun Botterill via Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>The Peoples Person has been one of the world\u2019s leading Man United news sites for over a decade. Follow us on Bluesky: @peoplesperson.bsky.social<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 Transfer guru Fabrizio Romano has confirmed that Manchester United have reached a full agreement&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}