{"id":15898,"date":"2019-11-26T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=15898"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:32:15","slug":"timothy-fosu-mensah-set-for-man-united-stay-until-2021-with-club-to-trigger-12-month-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/11\/26\/timothy-fosu-mensah-set-for-man-united-stay-until-2021-with-club-to-trigger-12-month-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy Fosu-Mensah set for Man United stay until 2021 with club to trigger 12-month contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Timothy Fosu-Mensah&#8217;s deal at Manchester United expires at the end of the term\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>United are keen to tie him down to a new deal so will trigger his 12-month option\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>The 21-year-old is currently recovering from a knee injury sustained last season<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Manchester United are protecting their assets with Timothy Fosu-Mensah set to remain at the club for a further 12 months at least.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The defender&#8217;s current deal at Old Trafford expires next summer, meaning he is free to speak to European clubs from January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">However, the Sun report that United are keen to keep the 21-year-old and will trigger his one-year extension clause before offering him new terms.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-e462145521e40fa1\" class=\"blkBorder img-share b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/11\/26\/09\/21476840-0-image-m-2_1574760346288.jpg\" alt=\"Manchester United are set to extend Timothy Fosu-Mensah's contract by a further 12 months\" width=\"634\" height=\"508\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay-icon mobile-gallery\">\n<div class=\"mobile-gallery-icon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Manchester United are set to extend Timothy Fosu-Mensah&#8217;s contract by a further 12 month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Fosu-Mensah is reportedly on 20,000-a-week at present and is happy to remain on those wages before seeing a rise once a fresh contract is offered to him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Dutchman hasn&#8217;t featured for the Red Devils this season as he continues his recovery from a cruciate knee injury sustained on loan at Fulham last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A source told the Sun: &#8216;They want to box Tim off in the next couple of weeks and trigger his option.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;He&#8217;s in the final year and close to coming back from injury. Ole still believes in him and rates him a lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;He will give him chances in next few weeks in Europa League and Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;His confidence has been quite low but the extension will certainly indicate to him that he can still have a future.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d66d058e56bfc4b2\" class=\"blkBorder img-share b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/11\/26\/09\/21476834-0-image-a-3_1574760361902.jpg\" alt=\"Fosu-Mensah is on the road to recovery from a serious knee injury sustained on last last season\" width=\"634\" height=\"423\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Fosu-Mensah is on the road to recovery from a serious knee injury sustained on last last season.<\/p>\n<p>source:dailymail<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Timothy Fosu-Mensah&#8217;s deal at Manchester United expires at the end of the term\u00a0 United are keen to tie him down to a new deal so will trigger his 12-month option\u00a0 The 21-year-old is currently recovering from a knee injury sustained last season Manchester United are protecting their assets with Timothy Fosu-Mensah set to remain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6409],"tags":[8496,1349,8240,9505,7619,3577,11294,7225,11547,11252,115,170,11973,10214,9487,7333,5374,4524,10333,3954],"class_list":["post-15898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-carabao-cup","tag-dutchman","tag-europa-league","tag-european","tag-fulham","tag-future","tag-injury","tag-loan","tag-man-united","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-united","tag-old-trafford","tag-one","tag-rates","tag-red-devils","tag-summer","tag-sun","tag-timothy-fosu-mensah","tag-wages","tag-will"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51533,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15898\/revisions\/51533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}