Not sure if this should go in SM's Stretfod End thread...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/6924981.stm Man Utd sell Rossi to Villarreal
Manchester United have sold striker Giuseppe Rossi to Spanish side Villarreal for a reported £6.7m fee.
The six-year deal is subject to the 20-year-old American-born Italian passing a medical on Wednesday.
Rossi was loaned to Newcastle last season and then to Parma, where he scored nine goals in 19 matches.
Villarreal were looking for a new striker after allowing Diego Forlan, another ex-United player, to join Atletico Madrid for £14m.
United signed Rossi as a 16-year-old from Parma and the Italian club were keen to secure his services once again after the striker helped them stay in Serie A last season during his loan spell.
They reportedly tabled a £5.4m bid for the Italy Under-21 international, but failed to clinch a deal.
United boss Sir Alex Ferguson often spoke highly of Rossi, who scored 13 times in 19 starts for the reserve team in his first season at Old Trafford.
He signed a new contract until 2010 last summer, with Ferguson hailing him as "the future of the club".
He went to Newcastle last season in a bid to play regular Premier League football but failed to win a regular place in the first team.
His loan spell in Parma was, by contrast, a huge success and Villarreal's offer was apparently too good for United to turn down.
Story from BBC SPORT:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/6924981.stmPublished: 2007/07/31 17:37:40 GMT
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