MATTEO DARMIAN HAS ended a difficult period at Manchester United by completing a permanent move to Parma.
Italy international Darmian returns to his homeland after agreeing a four-year deal with Roberto D’Aversa’s side.
The full-back was quoted over the weekend as telling Sky Sport Italia the move was an “important opportunity” to revive his national team career, Darmian having last been capped in 2017.
Darmian’s appearances in the Premier League waned from 28 in his first season to six in his last at Old Trafford.
He becomes the fourth United player to finalise a switch to Serie A in recent weeks, after Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez both joined Inter and Chris Smalling signed for Roma on loan.
Parma, ninth in the table after two games, have reportedly paid around €1.5million (£1.4m) to sign the 29-year-old.
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Keeping down the wage bill , he wasn’t getting near the team and they are trying a different approach imo
@Tricksy: haha what approach?
Other than CR7 who have united made money on.
They give away their players for virtually nothing
@Mark Smith: Danny Welbeck.
@Aimoo:
They stole £15m off Arsenal for him. To think they only paid them £20m for Van Persie.
@Mark Smith: every youth team player they’ve ever sold. Think you’ll find thsts quite a few too.
@Mark Smith: there are plenty, Beckham, van Nist, Heinze , Hernandez to name a few more
How can they only get 1.5 million for him? He’s a good player …. gotta be worth 15/20 million United and In fact all other English teams always get shafted when the European clubs buy their players.
@Davedental: lol
I heard a man on a phone in radio show blaming Brexit for this very reason
@Davedental: last year of his contract, its know hes not wanted in the squad and the player himself was on wages that mean United save about 3million alone in them plus the extra 1.5 , overall the best move for all involved
Bahahahahaha Manchester United