{"id":23919,"date":"2022-07-18T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/18\/revealed-the-player-erik-ten-hag-rejected-in-favour-of-lisandro-martinez\/"},"modified":"2022-07-18T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T19:00:40","slug":"revealed-the-player-erik-ten-hag-rejected-in-favour-of-lisandro-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/18\/revealed-the-player-erik-ten-hag-rejected-in-favour-of-lisandro-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: The player Erik ten Hag rejected in favour of Lisandro Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<hr>\n<p>New Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag ignored the advice of key figures at the club in pushing ahead with a swoop for Ajax star Lisandro Martinez, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The latest imminent addition to the first-team ranks at Old Trafford was, of course, made official on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>On the back of weeks of speculation, the Red Devils announced that they had finally struck a deal with Dutch champions Ajax, over a big-money deal for the aforementioned Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine, also a target of Premier League rivals Arsenal ahead of next season, is primed to put pen to paper on a long-term contract in Manchester over the days ahead, in the process reuniting with former boss Erik ten Hag.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">An agreement has been reached for the transfer of Lisandro Martinez ???<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MUFC<\/a> || <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LisandrMartinez?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LisandrMartinez<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manchester United (@ManUtd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManUtd\/status\/1548669013273747457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As alluded to above, though, had the transfer team at Old Trafford had their way, it may well have been another in-demand defender to have linked up with United ahead of the 2022\/23 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The player in question? Pau Torres.<\/p>\n<p>As per a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2022\/07\/17\/lisandro-martinez-joins-manchester-united-deal-could-reach-553m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Telegraph<\/a>, those in a position of power had long identified Villarreal stalwart Torres as the club\u2019s no.1 defensive target this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Such advice, in turn, was passed onto new boss Ten Hag, on the back of an extended spell of scouting in the Spanish region of Castellon.<\/p>\n<p>The new man on the bench at the Theatre of Dreams, however, was unwavering in his stance that a move for Martinez was the right option for the club, banking on his first-hand experience overseeing the 24-year-old\u2019s development in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>In a showcase of trust for their new tactician, the Red Devils hierarchy, in turn, fully backed Ten Hag, in diverting course from Torres, to focus their full attentions on striking a deal for Martinez.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/transfers\/revealed-how-manchester-uniteds-transfer-budget-compares-to-other-top-clubs\/\">Revealed: How Manchester United\u2019s transfer budget compares to other top clubs<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/manchester-united-fans-will-love-what-erik-ten-hag-said-about-christian-eriksen\/\">Manchester United fans will love what Erik ten Hag said about Christian Eriksen<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag ignored the advice of key figures at the club in pushing ahead with a swoop for Ajax star Lisandro Martinez, according to reports. The latest imminent addition to the first-team ranks at Old Trafford was, of course, made official on Sunday afternoon. On the back of weeks of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-23919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}