{"id":897,"date":"2026-06-01T19:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=897"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:46:24","slug":"mason-greenwood-ex-manchester-united-forward-wanted-by-fenerbahces-presidential-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"Mason Greenwood: Ex-Manchester United forward wanted by Fenerbahce&#8217;s presidential rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Mason Greenwood is the top transfer target for Fenerbahce&#8217;s two presidential candidates.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Manchester United and England forward has had a difficult few months at Marseille.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their new sporting director Gregory Lorenzi said last week the club was willing to listen to offers for Greenwood, who has three years remaining on the five-year deal he signed when he left United on a permanent basis in July 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former president Aziz Yildirim is vying with Hakan Safi for the club presidency of the Turkish club, with an announcement due on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is not anticipated personal terms would be a problem in trying to sign Greenwood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The striker has had to rebuild his career away from United despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-manchester-64502021\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">charges of attempted rape and assault being dropped<\/a> in February 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An internal investigation eventually concluded Greenwood could not play for the club again. In April, new Tottenham boss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cwyvq3gqwpyo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Roberto De Zerbi was forced to apologise<\/a> for defending Greenwood during his time at Marseille.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old has scored 48 goals in 81 appearances for Marseille. He finished joint second behind Rennes&#8217; Esteban Lepaul in the Ligue 1 golden boot standings this season with 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fenerbahce finished second for the fifth successive season in the Turkish Super Lig and will enter the Champions League in the second qualifying round in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">United included what club sources described as a &#8220;sizeable sell-on fee&#8221; when they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/crg7lm0zed5o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">sold Greenwood to Marseille<\/a> for 31.6m euros (\u00a326.6m).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has also been linked with Serie A side Roma in recent days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mason Greenwood is the top transfer target for Fenerbahce&#8217;s two presidential candidates. The former Manchester United and England forward has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","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=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}