{"id":60862,"date":"2024-05-15T11:48:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T11:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/raphael-varane-to-leave-manchester-united-at-end-of-season"},"modified":"2024-05-15T11:55:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T11:55:33","slug":"raphael-varane-to-leave-manchester-united-at-end-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/raphael-varane-to-leave-manchester-united-at-end-of-season","title":{"rendered":"Raphael Varane to leave Manchester United at end of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Raphael Varane will leave Manchester United this summer as his contract expires following three seasons at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To you guys, supporters of Manchester United, it has been an amazing few years to play for this special club and wear that shirt,&#8221; Varane said in a video posted on his Instagram and X accounts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first time I went to Old Trafford as a Man United player was insane. 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Raphael Varane will leave Manchester United this summer as his contract expires following three seasons at Old Trafford. &#8220;To you guys, supporters of Manchester United, it has been an amazing few years to play for this special club and wear that shirt,&#8221; Varane said in a video posted on his Instagram and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":60861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[233,281,125,283,4892,1580],"class_list":["post-60862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-football","tag-mozambique","tag-raphael-varane","tag-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Raphael Varane to leave Manchester United at end of season - 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