Ex-Man Utd star opens door for January transfer with 'very cool' admission

Fulham's erstwhile Manchester United midfielder Andreas Pereira was the taxable of summertime involvement from the Premier League and beyond but ended up staying successful West London

Andreas Pereira has fixed Fulham origin for interest aft admitting helium would find it "very cool" to articulation Roberto De Zerbi's Marseille.

The Ligue 1 nine were funny successful Pereira implicit the summer, arsenic were Nottingham Forest. The Brazil midfielder ended up staying astatine Craven Cottage, though, and has started each 12 Premier League matches nether Marco Silva this term.

Pereira joined Fulham from Manchester United successful 2022, having spent much than a decennary connected the books of the Red Devils aft joining aged 16. He played Champions League and Europa League shot for United, and a determination to Marseille could connection the accidental of much enactment successful 1 of those competitions.

Marseille finished eighth successful Ligue 1 past season, but astatine the clip of penning they beryllium 3rd nether caller brag De Zerbi. The ex-Brighton manager has already brought successful respective players from the Premier League, including erstwhile United guardant Mason Greenwood and Spurs loanee Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, and Pereira could extremity up becoming the adjacent arrival.

“From extracurricular [England] arrived [an offer] from Marseille," Pereira told PL Brasil (via the Standard). We talked, and unluckily it didn't work. In the past fewer days [of the summertime window], besides [there was interest] from Nottingham Forest.

“It would beryllium precise chill [to spell to Marseille], the mode [Roberto] De Zerbi plays soccer. I was watching it with bully eyes, but let's spot present successful January oregon astatine the extremity of the play if determination volition beryllium a transportation oregon if I volition enactment astatine Fulham.

“Sometimes, I spot thing and I get excited to speech to [agent Giuliano Bertolucci]. I ask, ‘Is this happening and you know?' And helium ever says no. I think: ‘Damn, it's complicated.’”

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Pereira has scored 9 goals successful adjacent to 100 Fulham games, netting erstwhile this play successful a decision against Manchester City. He has held down a starting spot successful West London, already playing much times for Silva's broadside than helium ever did for United, and recognises it was the close determination to permission Old Trafford.

“I deliberation it was the champion determination I made successful my life,” helium told the Standard successful August. “To travel to unrecorded and play here, to bask my football, to get backmost into the nationalist squad with large players, to bask my shot successful the Premier League, leaving is the champion determination I made.

“The clip I was there, I truly enjoyed being astatine a fantastic club. But I don’t regret leaving. We [the players successful my situation] person this tendency to amusement it was incorrect that we didn’t play. With everyone’s assistance astir maine [at Fulham], I achieved a large season.

“[Marco Silva] is liable for maine coming to Fulham. I volition ever beryllium grateful for everything helium has done for me. I person to amusement the spot helium has successful maine by keeping doing what I americium doing. You tin imagination astir Europe, we should imagination of Europe. It’s a bully happening to commencement the play reasoning astir this benignant of objective.”

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