The last gullible act from Manchester United concerning a contract renewal was that of Victor Lindelof's. In July, his agent Hasan Cetinkaya claimed Lindelof was Barcelona's fall-back target after Matthijs de Ligt chose to join Juventus.
Two months later, Lindelof and Cetinkaya were arm-in-arm in the Carrington press room, celebrating a new contract. Lindelof was not halfway through what was effectively a five-year contract and his agent had played a beauty.
Lindelof actually rebuked his agent for telling El Mundo Deportivo, of all newspapers, a 'big club' had touched base at a press conference in Perth.
The Barcelona 'interest' was just about believable, though not as believable as Cetinkaya adopting a scaremongering tactic to obtain an
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