Barcelona have today confirmed the completed transfer swoop for Brazilian winger Malcom from Bordeaux, embarrassing Roma in the process.
The Serie A giants had yesterday tweeted about reaching an agreement to land the youngster, which usually suggests a club is confident everything is done and getting the formalities done will be, well, a formality.
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Unfortunately, Barcelona have gazumped them late on and announced the signing on their official website today in what looks a hugely promising purchase for an outstanding talent.
Here’s a screen shot of Roma getting ahead of themselves, in case they delete it…
Away from this particular transfer, the deal has got a fair few Manchester United fans tweeting about their renewed prospects of landing Willian from Chelsea.
The Daily Mail recently linked the 29-year-old with both United and Barcelona, but if the latter have already signed a new winger, that surely means they won’t be needing another.
This could be a big boost for United if they do continue to chase Willian as has been suggested, so it’s unsurprising that many fans have drawn similar conclusions…
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https://twitter.com/Finneganegan/status/1021737853108318208
https://twitter.com/TheManUtdFan7/status/1021774973189402624
https://twitter.com/kyzrsoze/status/1021802526214168576
Gwan United sign Willian for £100m
— ?? (@afzal27__) July 24, 2018
Aaand United sign Willian then https://t.co/bfNJWmCVtp
— Charlie (@Charlanardo) July 24, 2018
I hope Man Utd pushes for Willian
— Otinkran (@mrpatriq) July 24, 2018
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