{"id":17113,"date":"2026-07-14T02:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=17113"},"modified":"2026-07-14T02:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:51:12","slug":"andrey-santos-on-meeting-carrick-reveals-his-goalscoring-ambitions-man-united-news-and-transfer-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=17113","title":{"rendered":"Andrey Santos on meeting Carrick, reveals his goalscoring ambitions &#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\">5<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--Article Start--><br \/>It has been an exciting Monday for Manchester United fans, with the club officially announcing the arrival of Andrey Santos.<\/p>\n<p>With the deal for Ederson not materialising, panic had spread among the fanbase, after they had already witnessed their club miss out on Elliot Anderson, Sandro Tonali, and Mateus Fernandes.<\/p>\n<p>But INEOS wrapped up a deal for the Brazilian in double quick-time, with the Red Devils delighted with the acquisition considering the price they paid for a player with such high potential.<\/p>\n<p>He was at Carrington training ground at the weekend and has already started working with his new team-mates.<\/p>\n<h5>Andrey Santos on meeting Carrick<\/h5>\n<p>The 22-year-old also met his new head coach, Michael Carrick, and was blown away by the Englishman\u2019s vision for the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know him very well. He\u2019s a top, top coach,\u201d Santos explained to the club\u2019s media team. \u201cI did a meeting with him, and I remember it because it was around 30 minutes and, when I finished my meeting with him, I said: \u2018Wow, he\u2019s amazing.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, I meet with him (in person) and I\u2019m so excited to work with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Vasco da Gama ace knows Matheus Cunha well from his time with the Brazilian national team, while Mason Mount was a Chelsea player back when Andrey Santos joined the Blues.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;I Want To Make History!&quot; | Andrey Santos: First Interview\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b9AWhZjAdwY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>Andrey Santos on his new team-mates<\/h5>\n<p>\u201cI know Matheus Cunha very well, we\u2019ve played together in the national team, I know Mason Mount as well because I remember at the last game between United and Chelsea we spoke,\u201d the United No. 17 added.<\/p>\n<p>And clearly, the midfielder is a fan of United captain Bruno Fernandes as he went on to explain. Not to mention how excited he is to get started with his new team-mates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know Bruno Fernandes, I swapped shirts with Bruno in the last game at Old Trafford, so I\u2019m excited to play with these guys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can learn a lot too from Bruno, so I\u2019m so excited to play with my team-mates, with Bruno, with Matheus, with Kobbie Mainoo, with Amad, with Diogo Dalot, with Harry Maguire, so with everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5>Goalscoring aims for the new season<\/h5>\n<p>While plenty feel Andrey Santos has what it takes to replace Casemiro, both for United and Brazil, the player himself is keen to get on the scoresheet more often.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a midfielder but I like to score goals, I like to arrive in the box to score, so to help my team-mates. I think the last season with Strasbourg in 2024\/25 was so important for me because I scored 10 times, so it was amazing and I hope, this season, I can be better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The stats back up his claim. During his season on loan in Ligue 1, Andrey Santos had emerged as the highest-scoring central midfielder in the league.<\/p>\n<p>He was prolific for his boyhood club as well, while also playing a key role in his national team\u2019s Under-20 CONMEBOL Championship success.<\/p>\n<p><em>Feature image Eddie Keogh 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><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-299864\" src=\"https:\/\/thepeoplesperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/affiliate-christmas-campaign-25-1500x300-en-uk-min.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1160\" height=\"65\"\/><\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 --><\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 It has been an exciting Monday for Manchester United fans, with the club officially&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17113","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\/17113","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=17113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}