Mason Greenwood It’s more than just a midsummer dream. The Manchester United winger is Lazio’s big target to land the impressive shot. A coup that Lotito is studying firsthand, after last year he was very close to taking him on loan. Let’s rewind the tape and go back to September 1, 2023.
In the late morning of the last day of the transfer window, Lazio forcefully targeted Mason Greenwood. The United winger hasn’t played for almost a year, the Red Devils are ready to sell him almost for free. Lazio offered a salary worth around one million euros that the Englishman was ready to accept. Some details with United and the tight deadlines caused the operation to fail. Greenwood didn’t stand still, after the operation with Lazio failed he moved on loan to Getafe and the year in La Liga changed his life and re-evaluated the price tag of one of the most crystalline talents in English football.
Record-breaking operation
From an almost free purchase in one year, the Greenwood operation risks turning into the most expensive operation in the history of Lotito’s Lazio. Manchester United are now asking for a figure close to 40 million euros for their winger, who cannot stay in Manchester and who is coming off a season of eight goals and six assists with Getafe. There Lazio obviously he cannot reach that figure, which is why he is studying an alternative formula. The idea is to carry out an operation similar to the one that brought Milinkovic to Rome. The Serbian arrived for 9 million euros plus 50% of the future resale, a percentage then “redeemed” by Lazio for another nine million. For Greenwood, Lazio offered 20 million plus 50% on future resale, a proposal that is very close to the 40 million requested by United. Lotito tries the big move, he has a contract ready for Greenwood worth 3.5 million euros net per season. A year later and at completely different prices, the Greenwood-Lazio marriage can take place.