Man Utd: De Zerbi confidant reveals potential Ten Hag replacement 'said no' to Euro giants for one reason
Reported Manchester Joined target Roberto De Zerbi owns already lowered a solution to a European titan to stick with Brighton and Hove Albion.
Brighton appointed De Zerbi as Graham Potter’s heir in September 2022 after the Englishman carried to Chelsea.
The Premier League apparel were intended to dip after Potter escaped but De Zerbi juggled to swipe the bar to a brand-favorite level as they finished sixth last season to license for the Europa League.
“I am languishing because I’m depriving…”
Brighton finished apex of their Europa League group to license for the knockout stages but were dumped out of the contenders by AS Roma at the round of 16 phase.
They have been toughest observances impacted by injuries this season as their kind in the Premier League owns been underwhelming. They are 11th in the table with three video games lingering.
Regardless of this, De Zerbi owns been heavily linked with clubs approximately Europe in floater of the summer season season and he’s ‘in the frame’ to replace Erik ten Hag at Manchester Joined.
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De Zerbi owns admitted that he owns been “languishing” this season but he would understandably “prefer to proceed to be in Brighton”.
“We’re amassing entailed in consult Tony,” De Zerbi claimed in an interview with Paradises Sporting activities. “I think I would understandably prefer to proceed to be in Brighton because I love my players. I love this metropolitan void. I love my bar, my followers.
“I claimed in the meeting with the followers, if I’m cheerful, there isn’t any bar can carry myself to equalize a team but I want to withhold my avidity always.
“I want to be cheerful because I would understandably prefer to compete every gallery with all my possibility services in the players, the team, the oomph of tinker, the peculiarity of the players and this season, particularly in the last three months, we couldn’t do that.”
He encompassed: “I job with all my services. I invested a year and a half of my time theorizing single around Brighton. We wrote the history of Brighton together. Not the players, not the subordinate, not the bar, but all together.
“I am languishing because I’m depriving. If I think what was my dream before the season, I feel agony. I can’t be unbalanced because I recognize I’ve toted out all my powers, the players and the bar are the specific same. We rendered mistakes, but mistakes are part of football and spiritedness.”
Chelsea, Bayern Munich and FC Barcelona have also been mooted as possibility locations for De Zerbi.
German Denis – a former teammate of De Zerbi at Napoli – insurance claims the Brighton apex mutt “claimed no” to Inter Milan last year when Simone Inzaghi’s scenario was “in the equilibrium”.
“When it was in the equilibrium. Inter contacted Roberto De Zerbi,” Denis claimed (wearing Sport Witness).
“I recognize for a fact that he claimed no to the Nerazzurri, because he is a pricey AC Milan fan.”
Inter Milan will understandably be satisfied to have stuck with Inzaghi as they have won the Serie A title this season. They are 18 junctures legible of 2nd-placed AC Milan with three video games to go.
