{"id":16677,"date":"2026-07-12T14:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16677"},"modified":"2026-07-12T14:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:02:20","slug":"man-utd-finalising-50m-santos-transfer-with-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=16677","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd &#8216;finalising&#8217; \u00a350m Santos transfer with Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Man Utd are closing in on a deal to sign Andrey Santos from Chelsea after reportedly backing out of their agreement to buy \u00c9derson Silva from Atalanta in the summer transfer window. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils have reportedly agreed to pay an initial transfer fee of \u00a348 million plus \u00a32 million in add-ons to the Blues for Santos.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian midfielder was set to be joined by his compatriot \u00c9derson, but it appears United are backing out of the \u00a338 million agreement they made with Atalanta.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Man Utd to \u2018finalising\u2019 \u00a350m Santos transfer with Chelsea<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>According to Sky Sports News, Man Utd are \u201cputting the final touches\u201d on the signings of Santos and Karl Darlow, who is joining on a free transfer after leaving Leeds United at the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p>Both players have been at the club\u2019s Carrington training ground to \u201cfinalise\u201d their moves and conduct club interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Santos, who has signed a five-year deal with the option of an additional year, arrives as part of United\u2019s plan to bolster their midfield following the departure of Casemiro this summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013 <\/strong><strong>Man Utd reveal location for new 100,000-seater stadium<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00c9derson was supposed to be the first of two or three midfield signings ahead of next season, but there has been an unexpected twist in the transfer.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old was all set to join Man Utd last month, but his arrival was delayed after being called up to Brazil\u2019s World Cup by Carlo Ancelotti at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>Sky Italia claim that talks between United and Atalanta have \u201cbroken down\u201d, and the Italian outfit have been informed that the deal will not proceed, after the player completed his medical.<\/p>\n<p>Reports on Friday suggested the move had been thrown into doubt due to a knee injury that \u00c9derson has been carrying. Sky, however, add that United deny the deal is off.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c9derson said in June that the transfer was \u201calmost done\u201d after Man Utd agreed to \u00a334m plus \u00a33.8m in potential bonuses, but it seems he will now return to Bergamo to continue playing for Atalanta under new boss Maurizio Sarri.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013 Ranking the World Cup favourites as we reach quarter-finals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See Also \u2013 Five of the best World Cup quarter-final clashes<\/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<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>Man Utd are closing in on a deal to sign Andrey Santos from Chelsea after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16677","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\/16677","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=16677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}