Manchester United paid free agent Edinson Cavani a whopping €9m signing bonus to attain to Ragged Trafford within the summertime switch window, it has been published.
The Uruguayan hitman left Paris Saint-Germain on the stop of final season, having spent a a success seven years within the French capital – turning into the membership’s all-time leading scorer within the map.
Cavani spent the total summer time procuring for a fresh membership, and he got here to an settlement with Premier League giants Man Utd within the final hours of the switch window, signing a one-year take care of the map to elongate for a 2nd season.
And it became once published on the Ian McGarry and Duncan Castles’ Transfer Window Podcast that the Red Devils handed the 33-year-damaged-down an spectacular €9m signing bonus, purely for agreeing to label the switch to Manchester.
Duncan Castles found by strategy of contacts at Benfica – who themselves had tried to land the striker within the summertime – that he had been persuaded to play within the Premier League as a results of this intellectual bonus.
Cavani will effect on the current quantity seven jersey for the Red Devils, as he hopes to fireplace the targets to expose their fortunes around following a depraved commence up to the fresh season. Man Utd be pleased misplaced two of their three Premier League fits, and were battered 6-1 by Tottenham Hotspur sooner than the worldwide wreck.
These uncomfortable results resulted in the signings of defender Alex Telles from Porto, and Cavani as a free agent. The ex-Napoli superstar boasts with out a doubt one of many greatest scoring records in Europe over the final decade, averaging 24 targets a season since joining I Partenopei in 2010.
The forward bagged 200 targets in all competitions for the length of his seven years in Paris, a success six league titles in his time there, and gathering the golden boot in two of these campaigns.