Goodbye Xueba! Manchester United officially announced that Varane will leave the team after the season and will not go to Saudi Arabia, and there is a high probability that he will join Lens

Snow Wolf Kanball

2024-05-14 21:14Posted in Guangdong sports creators

On May 14, Beijing time, the English Premier League Red Devils Manchester United officially announced that French central defender Raphael Varane will leave the team on a free transfer after the end of the season. The latter contract included a one-year extension, but United eventually forfeited the activation. Raphael Varane's three-year career with the Red Devils came to an end.

The 31-year-old former France international spent 10 seasons at Real Madrid, winning 17 trophies including three La Liga, four Champions Leagues, four Club World Cups, three UEFA Super Cups and three Spanish Super Cups, and helped France lift their second Hercules Cup in the summer of 2018 as a first-choice centre-back.

In the summer of 2021, Raphael Varane ended a 10-year Bernabeu career and joined Manchester United for €40 million. In almost three seasons, Raphael Varane played a total of 93 games in all competitions, scoring two goals and providing one assist, helping United win the Carabao Cup last season. So far this season, he has scored one goal in 24 starts in 30 games in all competitions for United, including 16 starts in 21 Premier League games, averaging 0.86 tackles, 0.71 interceptions and 4.10 clearances per game, delivering 765 passes and one key pass, with a pass completion rate of 89 per cent.

One thing to say, Raphael Varane's excellent individual ability and a good shot on the ball are what the United defence needs. It's a pity that Manchester United didn't get Varane at his peak. In the 10 years that he has been playing at Real Madrid, Xueba has suffered more and more injuries. It is not difficult to understand why Real Madrid sold him to Manchester United for 40 million in the summer of 2021, after all, at that time, Varane was only 28 years old, and he was definitely the golden period of central defenders in terms of age, and his value in the German transfer market was as high as 70 million euros.

In other words, Manchester United spent 40 million euros on a big contract with a whopping £325,000 a week, signing Raphael Varane, who has only five successes. Therefore, announcing that he will not renew his contract at the end of this season and let him leave the team on a free basis is actually a kind of stop loss. Professional football has its ruthless side.

Of course, even with only 5 successes, Varane is not worried about going home. Previously, the Saudi side had been eyeing him, hoping to use a lucrative contract to let him compete in the Saudi Professional League. Now that Varane is about to return to freedom, it is still quite a good choice to go to Saudi Arabia to earn the last pot of gold of his career.

However, the Saudi side is expected to be disappointed. Because as early as March 2023, Varane, who was interviewed by GQ magazine, responded positively to the topic of choosing to retire from the French national team at the age of 29 and where to end his career in the future. He said he would choose to retire at Real Madrid, Manchester United or his old club Lens. However, Real Madrid is a thing of the past, and Manchester United is about to become a thing of the past. Varane's only option is his old club Lens. Of course, plans are better than changes, and if Varane ends up trying to pan for gold in Saudi Arabia, everyone can understand it.

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