‘Seeking a taker’: INEOS now desperately trying to offload 105-app Red before deadline

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·31 de enero de 2025

‘Seeking a taker’: INEOS now desperately trying to offload 105-app Red before deadline

Keen to rid of any deadwood while they still have the chance, Manchester United are frantically ‘seeking a taker’ for Casemiro, as per Manchester Evening News.

Indeed, INEOS chiefs have been offering out the five-time Champions League winner’s services to club intermediaries, with hopes of sanctioning his exit by Monday’s deadline.

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Casemiro has fallen entirely out of favour since Ruben Amorim took the reins, to the point where 21-year-old academy graduate Toby Collyer has now leapfrogged him in the pecking order and even started the last two Europa League games in place of his veteran counterpart.

In the closing stages of last night’s win over FCSB, the Brazilian was granted an 18-minute cameo off the bench to mark his first appearance of the calendar year, as well as his first in exactly four weeks.

Casemiro seemingly unfazed by lack of game time

Casemiro has made only seven appearances under Amorim. (Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images)

He isn’t chomping at the bit to depart even amidst his reduced role, though. In fact, it’s been claimed that Casemiro turned down an approach at the beginning of the month from AS Roma, instead setting his sights on a Saudi Pro League move where they could match – or increase – his £350,000-a-week wages, which make him United’s highest earner.

When he was deployed from the off in Amorim’s maiden game against Ipswich Town last November, it was evident that he struggled to match the demands of the newly implemented 3-4-3 system – so much so that Alan Shearer later claimed it’d be impossible for the 32-year-old to perform the way the head coach wants.

“For a start, he’s got an ageing midfield. He played Casemiro and [Christian] Eriksen in there today – it would be nigh on impossible for those two to do what Amorim wants in terms of the pressing and the high energy and the running and everything else,” said Shearer on The Rest Is Football.