{"id":16131,"date":"2026-07-10T17:26:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16131"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:26:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:26:41","slug":"santos-requested-chelsea-exit-ahead-of-50m-man-utd-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16131","title":{"rendered":"Santos requested Chelsea exit ahead of \u00a350m Man Utd transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_65\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Andrey Santos asked to leave Chelsea in search of more minutes this summer, ahead of the midfielder\u2019s move to Manchester United.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manchester United have agreed a deal to sign Santos for an initial \u00a348m, with a further \u00a32m in add-ons. The Brazil international has agreed personal terms with Michael Carrick\u2019s side and is due to undergo a medical before completing the move.<\/p>\n<p>Fabrizio Romano has revealed that Santos requested to leave Chelsea amid a lack of minutes in 2025\/26. After returning from a loan spell at Strasbourg, Santos made only 13 starts in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>He requested an exit and interest from Manchester United was seen as the ideal environment for the next step of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Santos is set to be joined at Old Trafford by Brazil teammate Ederson, who is set to undergo another medical examination before completing his \u00a335m move to the club from Atalanta.<\/p>\n<p>The duo will boost the club\u2019s midfield options following Manuel Ugarte\u2019s knee injury and Casemiro\u2019s exit as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0World Cup Golden Boot Race: Messi edges in front of Mbappe and Haaland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0World Cup Day 27: Argentina flirt with catastrophe, Switzerland advance<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube | TikTok<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrey Santos asked to leave Chelsea in search of more minutes this summer, ahead of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16131","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\/16131","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=16131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}