Manchester United rejected request in £29m Patrick Dorgu transfer

Manchester United issued an ultimatum to Patrick Dorgu and Lecce to unit his determination successful the January transportation window, according to the Serie A club’s president.

United agreed a €35 cardinal (£29.2m) woody with Lecce successful the last week of the January window which saw Dorgu go the archetypal signing of Ruben Amorim’s reign.

Napoli were besides successful the moving to motion Dorgu and the Italian club’s sporting director, Giovanni Manna, claimed this week that United paid supra the marketplace worth to motion the 20-year-old wing-back.

Lecce’s president, Saverio Sticchi Damiani, says the nine were hopeless to support Dorgu for the remainder of the play and has revealed that United told some the subordinate and the nine that it was ‘now oregon never’ successful bid to guarantee the transportation went through.

‘It is our grounds transportation and it happens successful our infinitesimal of large economical health,’ Damiani said.

‘It was not a planned operation, it was not done to capable captious issues of the past. It brings america wealthiness from each points of presumption and the anticipation of making method and structural investments.

‘We said respective times that Dorgu would not permission successful January, and present I volition explicate wherefore the other happened. Manchester United arrived, who made themselves heard with america and with the boy’s entourage, receiving an authoritative effect from america that I permission here, successful which we said that we had nary volition of letting Dorgu permission successful January. And not talking astir figures, not asking for increases.

‘This, alternatively of stopping United, had the other effect. Manchester ​​insisted, we asked respective times to postpone everything until the summer, besides promising the young antheral that helium would not miss the opportunity.

‘For america excessively it was a historical step, we conscionable wanted to bash it successful July. The English communicated to america their desire, the nine and their coach, to beryllium immediate.

‘There was an ultimatum – ‘now oregon never’ – besides giving this connection to the subordinate himself.

‘You cannot justice Dorgu, you are 20 years aged and Manchester United travel to you with an connection similar that. The operation of these factors led america to deliberation that we would person gone from being accordant to being stupidly obstinate.’

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