West Ham have crushed Manchester United to the signing of Noussair Mazraoui after agreeing an preliminary price of £13.5m with Bayern Munich for the Morocco full-back, based on a report.
The price might rise to virtually £16.5m, Sky Sport Germany has stated, including that the 26-year-old is in talks over private phrases.
Widespread stories stated Manchester United had been eager to signal Mazraoui in a deal which might have reunited him with Erik ten Hag, his supervisor throughout his time at Dutch giants Ajax.
🚨⚒️ EXCL | FC Bayern and West Ham have reached an settlement to signal Noussair #Mazraoui!
▫️Switch price: €15,5 + €4m add-ons
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— Florian Plettenberg (@Plettigoal) July 25, 2024
Man United ‘wished Mazraoui switch’
Information of Mazraoui’s potential change to West Ham comes lower than 24 hours after he was linked with United.
The Guardian reported on Wednesday that Ten Hag noticed the right-back as a participant able to remodeling winger Antony’s fortunes, though the outlet added that the transfer would depend upon the sale of Aaron Wan-Bissaka for round £21m.
Antony stays United’s second-most costly signing of all time however has didn’t reside as much as the £86m price Ten Hag paid Ajax for the Brazil worldwide in August 2022, scoring one Premier League purpose final season.
Mazraoui Bayern stats
Born within the Netherlands, Mazraoui joined Ajax’s academy as a toddler and made his debut for the Amsterdammers in 2018.
He helped Ten Hag win the Eredivisie 3 times between 2019 and 2022 as a part of a haul of six trophies, in addition to taking the membership’s Expertise of the 12 months award in his first marketing campaign and Aim of the Season honour for 2021/22.
A transfer to Bayern on a free switch adopted in Might 2022, scoring as soon as and offering eight assists in 55 appearances for Germany’s most profitable facet.
A significant participant within the Morocco crew who reached the 2022 Fifa World Cup semi-finals, his attacking model has been likened to England worldwide Trent Alexander-Arnold.
Mazraoui is much more versatile than the Liverpool wideman, being deployed on each flanks in addition to in midfield.
“Noussair is a participant who presses ahead so much down the proper facet,” then-Bayern sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic stated when the signing was introduced. “We additionally actually like his mentality.”
