Manchester United’s sad teenage star JJ Gabriel has flown to Barcelona for talks with the Catalan giants.
Since Gabriel rocked United with a bombshell demand to stop the membership, he has been strongly linked with Barca and their La Liga rivals Actual Madrid.
Barcelona have been eager on Gabriel for a while and gave him a tour of their membership services in August 2024 when he was launched to famous person Lamine Yamal who signed a shirt and posed for a photograph.
The 15-year-old has not been seen at United since he scored a hat-trick for the Underneath-21s on his UEFA Youth League debut in opposition to Sabah on Thursday.
Gabriel, who has been at United for the reason that age of 11, is seen as one of many hottest younger prospects in European soccer. Though English gamers are solely in a position to transfer overseas on the age of 18, he’s eligible to hitch a European crew at 16 as a result of he holds an Irish passport.
JJ Gabriel has flown to Barcelona for talks over a transfer to the LaLiga champions
Gabriel (pictured with Lamine Yamal in 2024) has instructed Man United he desires to depart the membership
He was set to signal a first-year scholarship at United on the age 16, which might have routinely triggered a profitable skilled contract on his seventeenth birthday. Nevertheless, the winger has requested United to tear up his present deal which is because of expire on the finish of the season.
The membership have to date refused to take action, and head coach Michael Carrick stated at his press convention on Friday that the teen’s wellbeing stays paramount no matter his future at Previous Trafford.
‘I believe I would just repeat what I stated the opposite day, actually,’ stated Carrick. ‘He is a younger boy, JJ, and I believe it is essential that we actually do not play something out right here. I believe the publicity and the scrutiny and every little thing, you’ve received to watch out and be wise and consider him as a lot as something.
‘So the state of affairs will work itself out, no matter manner it may work itself out. Ensuring he is okay is the essential factor.’
