When we look back for a MVP of Manchester United’s season, a wise-cracking choice might be to name Veronique Rabiot.
Veronique Rabiot is Adrien Rabiot‘s mother and agent, who held personal negotiations with Manchester United football director John Murtough over the summer.
Soon afterwards, Manchester United’s move for Adrien Rabiot collapsed. Fabrizio Romano reported that United viewed Rabiot’s wage demands as too high.
Manchester United then decided to pay a higher fee for a far superior player, landing five-times Champions League winner Casemiro.
Casemiro has had a major impact so far at United, while Rabiot’s future at Juventus seems more uncertain than ever.
Rabiot pushing for Premier League move
Adrien Rabiot could end up in the Premier League after all. It just won’t be with Manchester United.
The Times reports that Veronique Rabiot has offered the France international midfielder to both Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal.
Tottenham are considered to be frontrunners, with a fee of £13.5 million proposed. However, as with United, any deal will come down to wage demands.
Rabiot may not ask as much from other clubs as his agent did with United. The Red Devils are often seen as a cash cow by agents, and this has seen United get trapped into expensive deals in the past, for players who do not warrant them.
BBC reported in August that a deal to bring Rabiot to Old Trafford would have seen him become one of the club’s best paid players, with The Athletic reporting that it was the Red Devils who walked away from the deal.
Thankfully sense prevailed in the summer and Manchester United did not pay up for Rabiot.
This is less of a reflection on Rabiot, and more of a cause for celebration that a deal was struck for a vastly superior player instead, Casemiro.
Tottenham’s sporting director Fabio Paratici signed Rabiot for Juventus, and this connection could end up swinging the deal for them.
Rabiot will be a free agent next summer and was quoted by The Athletic earlier this month saying he is keen on playing in the Premier League.
If he had lowered his wage demands in the summer, he would already be a Manchester United player.
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