{"id":4272,"date":"2019-08-08T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T12:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=4272"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:33:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:33:44","slug":"manchester-united-pull-out-of-mario-mandzukic-deal-as-ole-gunnar-solskjaer-is-left-without-a-replacement-for-inter-bound-romelu-lukaku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/08\/08\/manchester-united-pull-out-of-mario-mandzukic-deal-as-ole-gunnar-solskjaer-is-left-without-a-replacement-for-inter-bound-romelu-lukaku\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United pull out of Mario Mandzukic deal as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is left WITHOUT  a replacement for Inter-bound Romelu Lukaku"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Manchester United have dropped their interest in Juventus&#8217; Mario Mandzukic<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>The move collapsed due to Juve&#8217;s high valuation and player&#8217;s wage demands<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>United wanted to bring the Croatian in as a replacement for Romelu Lukaku<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Lukaku is on the brink of completing his \u00a373million move to Inter Milan\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/teampages\/manchester-united.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester United <\/a>have dropped their interest in Mario Mandzukic over <a class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/teampages\/juventus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juventus<\/a>\u2019s valuation and the player\u2019s high wage demands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">United initially looked at signing Mandzukic as part of the swap deal with Juve involving Romelu Lukaku and Paulo Dybala.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">When those talks collapsed last week, United were still open to buying Mandzukic in a separate deal to replace Lukaku who is now set to join Inter Milan.<\/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-48c05629ee597422\" class=\"blkBorder img-share b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/08\/08\/07\/17032012-0-image-a-5_1565245878923.jpg\" alt=\"Manchester United have ended their interest in Juventus' veteran striker Mario Mandzukic\" width=\"634\" height=\"423\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Manchester United have ended their interest in Juventus&#8217; veteran striker Mario Mandzukic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But it\u2019s understood that United were only looking at spending around \u00a315m on the 33-year-old Croatia international, and were not prepared to meet Juve\u2019s asking price. The player\u2019s personal terms are also understood to be a factor in United\u2019s decision to walk away from negotiations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">They are now unlikely to buy a replacement for Lukaku ahead of Thursday\u2019s 5pm Premier League transfer deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">That possibility has been accepted at Old Trafford since the Dybala deal fell through, with United reluctant to buy a new striker for the sake of it.<\/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-88cc672e9c94c06f\" class=\"blkBorder img-share b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/08\/07\/17\/17005126-0-image-a-1_1565194332934.jpg\" alt=\"Romelu Lukaku is on the brink of completing his \u00a373million move to Inter Milan\" width=\"634\" height=\"363\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Romelu Lukaku is on the brink of completing his \u00a373million move to Inter Milan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The club saw enough on tour this summer from Mason Greenwood, Angel Gomes and Tahith Chong to believe their academy youngsters can make a contribution this season to support Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial, Jesse Lingard, Alexis Sanchez and Dan James.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Lukaku\u2019s \u00a374m move to Inter is expected to be confirmed on Thursday after the player has a medical in Milan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Negotiations with his agent Federico Pastorello accelerated on Wednesday after Lukaku was fined two weeks\u2019 wages by United for going AWOL and training with his old club Anderlecht in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Lukaku and Pastorello flew to Italy on Wednesday night to complete the deal and end a two-year stay at Old Trafford, with United recouping most of the \u00a375m they paid Everton in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>source:dailymail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United have dropped their interest in Juventus&#8217; Mario Mandzukic The move collapsed due to Juve&#8217;s high valuation and player&#8217;s wage demands United wanted to bring the Croatian in as a replacement for Romelu Lukaku Lukaku is on the brink of completing his \u00a373million move to Inter Milan\u00a0 Manchester United have dropped their interest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6409],"tags":[1374,188,1269,7273,113,1904,8678,9478,306,3360,572,10954,1392,1675,492,404,11252,115,3232,507,7448,8258,9158,8000,170,190,267,12103,114,570,268,7333,10656,10333,594],"class_list":["post-4272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-alexis","tag-alexis-sanchez","tag-anderlecht","tag-anthony","tag-anthony-martial","tag-brussels","tag-croatia","tag-dropped","tag-everton","tag-greenwood","tag-inter-milan","tag-international","tag-italy","tag-jesse-lingard","tag-juventus","tag-lukaku","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-united","tag-mandzukic","tag-marcus-rashford","tag-martial","tag-mason-greenwood","tag-milan","tag-negotiations","tag-old-trafford","tag-ole-gunnar-solskjaer","tag-premier-league","tag-price","tag-rashford","tag-romelu-lukaku","tag-sanchez","tag-summer","tag-swap","tag-wages","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52055,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions\/52055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}