Manchester United finished the signing of goalkeeper Andre Onana from Inter Milan for 51 million euros ($57 million) on Thursday, reuniting Erik ten Hag with a participant with whom he received 3 Dutch titles at Ajax.
Onana has joined on a five-year contract. There could also be an technique to lengthen the deal via an additional 365 days and United must pay 4 million euros ($4.5 million) in add-ons, relying on his luck on the membership.
βTo join Manchester United is an incredible honor and I have worked hard all my life to get to this moment, overcoming many obstacles along the way,β stated the Cameroonian goalkeeper.
Onana will sign up for up together with his new teammates on their preseason excursion of the United States.
He replaces David de Gea, who introduced his departure from United after 12 years on the membership previous this month.
Comfortable with the ball at his toes, Onana must permit Ten Hag to enforce his plans to construct play from protection, which he struggled to do with De Gea remaining season.
Onana’s footwork was once many times cited via Pep Guardiola as one in every of Inter’s key strengths forward of the Champions League ultimate remaining month, which Manchester City received 1β0.
The 27-year-old Onana’s distribution and skill to step out of his space to obtain the ball have been on display in that ultimate as he justified Guardiola’s reward.
United went into this offseason with a best striker as its precedence within the switch marketplace, however the want for a brand new keeper become more and more transparent in opposition to the top of the season as doubts over De Gea’s distribution grew. The Spanish keeper was once additionally criticized for his position in Ilkay Gundogan’s profitable objective in United’s FA Cup ultimate loss in opposition to City.
But he’ll be a difficult act for Onana to practice. No Premier League goalkeeper saved extra blank sheets than him remaining season and he was once named United’s participant of the yr on 4 events.
He was once additionally a part of its remaining league title-winning group and lifted 4 primary trophies with the membership.
Onana handiest spent one season at Inter the place he received the Italian Cup and Super Cup. He additionally helped the membership succeed in the Champions League ultimate.
He was once despatched house from remaining yr’s World Cup after a dispute with trainer Rigobert Song.
He later introduced that he had ended his profession with the nationwide group.
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