{"id":274288,"date":"2024-01-13T19:48:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T19:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepeoplesperson.com\/?p=274288"},"modified":"2024-01-13T19:48:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T19:48:26","slug":"mateo-mejia-fabrizio-romano-confirms-man-united-have-agreed-permanent-deal-with-sevilla-for-sale-of-academy-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepeoplesperson.com\/2024\/01\/13\/mateo-mejia-fabrizio-romano-confirms-man-united-have-agreed-permanent-deal-with-sevilla-for-sale-of-academy-star-274288\/","title":{"rendered":"Mateo Mejia: Fabrizio Romano confirms Man United have agreed permanent deal with Sevilla for sale of academy star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--Article Start--><br \/>\nFabrizio Romano has confirmed that Manchester United and Sevilla have struck a deal over the permanent transfer of academy star Mateo Mejia.<\/p>\n<p>United signed Mejia from Real Zaragoza in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He was a regular feature in Premier League 2 last season. He frequently trained with the first team but didn&#8217;t manage to make his senior United debut.<\/p>\n<p>Mejia signed a new contract at Old Trafford in June, which was due to expire at the end of the ongoing 2023\/24 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>According to Romano, it seems that the Red Devils have elected not to hand Mejia fresh terms and have instead decided to part ways.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian journalist reports, &#8220;Sevilla agree deal to sign Mateo Mejia from Manchester United on permanent transfer. Documents to be signed next week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;2003 born striker will leave the club on free permanent deal as contract was due to expire in June.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Manchester United will have 25% sell-on clause for Mejia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd34\u26aa\ufe0f\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf4 Excl: Sevilla agree deal to sign Mateo Mejia from Manchester United on permanent transfer. Documents to be signed next week.<\/p>\n<p>2003 born striker will leave the club on free permanent deal as contract was due to expire in June.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MUFC<\/a> will have 25% sell-on clause for Mejia. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3qsy5Bh4FX\">pic.twitter.com\/3qsy5Bh4FX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1746221325541163465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Romano does not clarify the fee Sevilla will fork out to land the 20-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt Mejia will be looking to finally kickstart his professional career at Sevilla and prove United should not have cut him loose so early on.<\/p>\n<p>The Colombia under-20 international will likely soon be joined at the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan Stadium by Hannibal Mejbri, who is also closing in on a loan move to Sevilla.<\/p>\n<p>United and the Spanish giants have been in talks over a temporary switch to La Liga for Hannibal and it&#8217;s thought that official confirmation of a deal is close.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12958201\/Manchester-United-begun-talks-loan-left-Alvaro-Fernandez-Benfica-Red-Devils-set-cancel-Spaniards-loan-Granada.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Mail&#8217;s Simon Jones<\/a> reveals that Erik ten Hag&#8217;s side are expected to let the Morocco international leave after Sunday&#8217;s game against Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford.<br \/>\n<!--Article End--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabrizio Romano has confirmed that Manchester United and Sevilla have struck a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94165,"featured_media":273058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3319],"tags":[2985,3437,2677],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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