Man Utd set for Mason Greenwood transfer windfall as European trio register interest

Mason Greenwood's commencement to beingness astatine Marseille has attracted involvement from a trio of European giants and a transportation determination would bring a invited boost to Manchester United's finances

Mason Greenwood is attracting involvement from a trio of big-name European teams contempt only joining Marseille successful the summer.

While playing for Manchester United, Greenwood was arrested successful October 2022 and was subsequently charged with attempted rape, engaging successful controlling and coercive behaviour, and battle occasioning existent bodily harm.

Those charges were dropped successful February 2023 by the Crown Prosecution Service. After an interior review, United decided helium would not play different crippled for the nine and they duly sold him connected successful the summer.

Since arriving astatine the French side, helium has scored 5 goals successful 4 games, firing them connected an improbable Ligue 1 rubric challenge. His performances present look to beryllium attracting the eyes of funny suitors.

According to talkSPORT, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich are each monitoring the striker. Scouts from each 3 teams person been sent to ticker the Englishman successful enactment for Marseille.

If Marseille were to merchantability him, erstwhile nine United would beryllium successful enactment for a windfall. The Red Devils inserted a hefty sell-on clause into the £26.6million woody which took Greenwood to France successful the summer.

He is already the third-most costly merchantability of an academy subordinate successful United's history. Barca person been keeping tabs connected the 22-year-old for immoderate time, with Atletico having besides scouted him past season.

Both opted against making a ceremonial successful the summer, allowing Marseille to swoop in. Bayern's involvement comes contempt the German giants already having England skipper Harry Kane connected their books.

Meanwhile, Greenwood is presently the apical scorer successful Ligue 1 and was named Marseille's subordinate of the period for August. Greenwood volition adjacent beryllium successful enactment connected Sunday erstwhile Marseille question to Lyon, with a triumph taking them apical should PSG suffer to Reims connected Saturday night.

Roberto De Zerbi's men volition beryllium travelling without their fans though. The outgoing curate of the interior Gérald Darmanin has issued a decree banning the question of Marseille supporters to the Groupama Stadium for Sunday's game.

Darmanin has claimed that that determination is “a existent and superior hazard of confrontation betwixt supporters of the 2 clubs”. The curate has besides referred to Marseille’s travels arsenic being “very often a root of disturbance to nationalist bid owed to the convulsive behaviour of definite supporters” with “fights betwixt supporters” and “violence against the police, arsenic good arsenic [the] throwing [of] firecrackers, fume bombs, and flares.”

Sunday's crippled has been categorised arsenic precocious risk, with past year's clash the Stade Vélodrome having to beryllium rescheduled aft Marseille supporters attacked the Lyon autobus en way to the stadium. Then Lyon manager Fabio Grosso was injured successful the onslaught aft helium was struck by a rocket that shattered a model of the autobus helium was a rider on.

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