- Mason Greenwood joined Marseille from Manchester United on Thursday
- However the ahead’s £30million swap has been met with widespread anger
- The mayor of Marseille, Benoit Payan, has branded Greenwood ‘a shame’
Manchester United have been slammed for making the most of Mason Greenwood’s sale and urged to donate their earnings to ladies’s charities.
Final week, Greenwood, 22, sealed a £30million deal to the Ligue 1 membership after present process a medical and signing his contract, ending his protracted Man United saga.
The ahead spent final season on mortgage in LaLiga with Getafe and had not performed for United since being arrested in January 2022.
He was then charged with tried rape, assault occasioning bodily hurt and controlling and coercive behaviour 9 months later. Nevertheless, the fees and case had been dropped in February 2023 when key witnesses withdrew.
Greenwood has vehemently denied any wrongdoing.
Mason Greenwood (proper) accomplished a £30million transfer from Manchester United to Marseille final week
Manchester United have been slammed for making the most of the sale and urged to donate the windfall to ladies’s charities. Pictured: Minority proprietor Sir Jim Ratcliffe (proper)
His transfer to Ligue 1 has drawn protests from followers with the mayor of Marseille, Benoit Payan, warning towards the swap and branding Greenwood ‘a shame’.
A home abuser marketing campaign David Challen and activist added his voice to these slamming the transfer, insisting that the Pink Devils ought to have engaged with ladies’s charities and urging the membership to donate the revenue made on their academy graduate.
‘Man Utd’s a large international sports activities membership that rakes in tons of of hundreds of thousands a 12 months and that they didn’t launch a participant – which they might have achieved fairly simply – and selected to retain him for their very own monetary wants, actually prioritises the monetary wants of the corporate above ladies.’ He told the i.
‘It simply doesn’t appear to be the membership cares, even on a fundamental stage, about ladies and women.
‘They didn’t even interact with ladies’s charities till the eleventh hour, the actual fact they’ll’t donate to a kind of charities or perhaps a charity within the native space, it is woeful, particularly for a membership of Man Utd’s dimension.
‘Companies nationally are crippled and wish funding, even within the native space. It’s staggering however sadly, it’s not stunning, as a result of that they had the possibility to launch him however they did not.’
Greenwood will hyperlink up with former Brighton supervisor Roberto de Zerbi at Marseille subsequent season
Tons of of supporters had gathered to greet Greenwood after he touched down in France on Wednesday night however the Marseille fanbase is split- with each #GreenwoodNotWelcome and #GreenwoodWelcome trending on X.
Talking after his Marseille unveiling, he insisted he has put the previous behind him and is seeking to the long run along with his accomplice and their daughter.
He told La Provence: ‘Clearly, I’m conscious of this debate and I perceive the query. I don’t want to enter into any controversy. I already had the chance to precise myself on this topic final 12 months.
‘With my accomplice, we rebuilt ourselves collectively, as a pair, we have now simply spent a 12 months in Madrid. We’ve been collectively since we had been 15, 16 years previous.
‘I’m now wanting in the direction of the long run and I’m solely targeted on Olympique de Marseille and on our new life, collectively, in Marseille.’
Greenwood might play his first recreation in England in additional than two years this summer time as a part of Marseille’s pre-season schedule.
His unofficial debut, in the meantime, might come as quickly as Sunday when his new membership play Nimes of their first pleasant.
The 22-year-old had not performed for his boyhood membership Manchester United since being arrested in January 2022
On August 3, Marseille will journey to Valley Parade in his hometown of Bradford to face Sunderland of their penultimate recreation. Ought to Greenwood characteristic, it could be his first outing in a public match in England in two years, six months and 12 days.
Greenwood made 129 appearances for United, scoring 35 targets.
