{"id":18220,"date":"2026-08-19T00:23:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/?p=18220"},"modified":"2026-08-19T00:23:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:23:45","slug":"barcelona-offers-marc-casado-to-manchester-united-amid-financial-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/19\/barcelona-offers-marc-casado-to-manchester-united-amid-financial-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Offers Marc Casad\u00f3 to Manchester United Amid Financial Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona has offered <a href=\"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/18\/man-united-urged-to-hijack-arsenals-60m-bid-for-ezri-konsa\/\" class=\"auto-internal-link\" title=\"Man United Urged to Hijack Arsenal\u2019s \u00a360M Bid for Ezri Konsa\">Manchester United<\/a> the opportunity to sign midfielder Marc Casad\u00f3 as the Spanish club attempts to clear salary space and satisfy financial regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish source Diario Sport has reported that Manchester United have been presented with an opportunity to sign <a href=\"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/04\/barcelona-reach-e10m-agreement-with-al-hilal-for-permanent-joao-cancelo-transfer\/\" class=\"auto-internal-link\" title=\"Barcelona Reach \u20ac10m Agreement with Al-Hilal for Permanent Jo\u00e3o Cancelo Transfer\">Marc Casado<\/a> by Barcelona with the Catalans prepared to sell the La Masia graduate in order to balance their books.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as Barcelona works within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laliga.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Liga<\/a> financial fair play restrictions, which limit squad spending relative to club revenues. Casad\u00f3, who signed a contract extension through June 2028 after captaining Barca Atl\u00e8tic, made 31 appearances for the reserve side in the 2023\u201324 season alongside four first-team appearances under former manager Xavi Hern\u00e1ndez.<\/p>\n<p>As per <a href=\"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/18\/barcelona-agree-to-sell-defender-jofre-torrents-to-ajax-with-buy-back-clause\/\" class=\"auto-internal-link\" title=\"Barcelona Agree to Sell Defender Jofre Torrents to Ajax with Buy-Back Clause\">Mundo Deportivo<\/a>, Barca were seeking \u00a334 million for Casado\u2019s services earlier in the summer but as they are now looking to move on from him, there might be room to negotiate the Spanish youngster\u2019s asking price.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United has monitored central midfield targets to strengthen squad depth and tactical flexibility. During his season with Barca Atl\u00e8tic, Casad\u00f3 recorded a 91 percent pass completion rate while averaging 2.4 tackles per 90 minutes in central midfield.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-news-box\">\n<h3 class=\"related-news-title\">Read also:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"related_news_list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/18\/barcelona-agree-to-sell-defender-jofre-torrents-to-ajax-with-buy-back-clause\/\">Barcelona Agree to Sell Defender Jofre Torrents to Ajax with Buy-Back Clause<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/18\/man-united-urged-to-hijack-arsenals-60m-bid-for-ezri-konsa\/\">Man United Urged to Hijack Arsenal&#8217;s \u00a360M Bid for Ezri Konsa<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/18\/cristian-romero-completes-e35m-transfer-to-atletico-madrid-from-tottenham-hotspur\/\">Cristian Romero Completes \u20ac35M Transfer to Atletico Madrid From Tottenham Hotspur<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona has offered Manchester United the opportunity to sign midfielder Marc Casad\u00f3 as the Spanish club attempts to clear salary space and satisfy financial regulations. Spanish source Diario Sport has reported that Manchester United have been presented with an opportunity to sign Marc Casado by Barcelona with the Catalans prepared to sell the La Masia &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19961,19960,295,5985,4559],"class_list":["post-18220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-asking-price","tag-balance-their-books","tag-manchester-united","tag-marc-casado","tag-mundo-deportivo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18223,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18220\/revisions\/18223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}