{"id":1050,"date":"2026-06-02T13:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:56:28","slug":"man-utd-join-transfer-race-for-championship-midfielder-who-looks-certain-to-leave-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd join transfer race for Championship midfielder who looks &#8216;certain to leave&#8217; this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"B\">\n<div>\n<p><span>Man Utd are set to rival several Premier League clubs for the signature of Hackney, with Carrick understood to be championing the move, as per <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenorthernecho.co.uk\/sport\/26153170.manchester-united-interested-middlesbroughs-hayden-hackney\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\"><i><em>The Northern Echo<\/em><\/i><\/a><span>. The former United midfielder, who has spent three seasons managing Hackney at the Riverside, has reportedly pushed the youngster&#8217;s claims during post-season recruitment meetings at Old Trafford.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hackney has established himself as a key figure in Middlesbrough&#8217;s midfield over the last three seasons. Carrick is believed to view the 23-year-old as a player capable of making the step up to the Premier League. The prospect of linking up again with Carrick could strengthen United&#8217;s position as interest in the midfielder continues to grow ahead of the summer transfer window.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man Utd are set to rival several Premier League clubs for the signature of Hackney, with Carrick understood to be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}