Andre Onana gets his way with Man Utd contract demand despite agreeing loan exit
Andre Onana had been seeking a new contract at Manchester United following a pay cut but is now poised to seal a loan move to Turkey that will see him massively increase his wages
Andre Onana is set to DOUBLE his wages once he completes with loan move to Trabzonspor – after Manchester United had rejected his request for a pay rise.
The goalkeeper was linked with a summer exit but looked poised to remain at the club once the Premier League transfer window closed. However, Turkish clubs can still act and the Cameroon stopper will seal a season-long loan switch to the Super Lig outfit after agreeing to the move.
Onana is due to travel to Turkey on Thursday to complete a deal, featuring a hefty pay rise owing to a big signing-on fee and bonuses. United will not bank a loan fee and Trabzonspor have no option to make the loan permanent, meaning he is due to return to Manchester at the end of the current campaign.
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The goalkeeper, like many of his team-mates, had to accept a 25 percent pay cut when the team missed out on the Champions League. United are now two years without playing in Europe’s top competition and Onana’s demand for a new deal was not well received by Ruben Amorim.
Onana’s future at Old Trafford has been a talking point all summer, having not endeared himself to Amorim with his contract demand nor his fitness upon returning for pre-season – at a time with United pursing a new goalkeeper. On deadline they managed to completed the signing Senne Lammens from Antwerp in a £21.7million deal last week.
Trabzonspor are in the process of selling their keeper, Ugurcan Cakir, to Galatasaray, which motivated them to pursue a loan deal for Onana has progressed quickly ahead of the transfer window closing in Turkey on Friday.
United had maintained that the former Inter Milan goalkeeper, who was signed two years ago for £47m, was not for sale and would battle Lammens for the No.1 spot. However if he wanted to seek a move they would not stand in his way and Onana is now poised to land a lucrative contract for the remainder of the season.
Onana’s time in Manchester has been error-strewn and he’s been overlooked for all three Premier League games thus far this term with Altay Bayindir preferred. The 29-year-old made another mistake during United’s humiliating Carabao Cup defeat at Grimsby Town, albeit he was defended by Amorim.
He said: “With all due respect, when you play against a fourth-division team, it’s not the goalkeeper, it’s everything. It’s the environment, it’s the way we face the competition. We know that we are in the moment everything people will pay attention to everything. It’s going to be massive every detail.”
However, a matter of weeks later, he’s out the exit door.
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