LONDON — La Liga president Javier Tebas says he hopes Manchester United ahead Mason Greenwood stays in Spanish soccer when his mortgage at Getafe ends. Greenwood, 22, joined the Madrid-based membership on mortgage in September and has performed his first minutes because the Crown Prosecution Service ended legal proceedings in opposition to him over an alleged rape.

Greenwood, who didn’t play for United after his suspension in January 2022, has discovered good kind in Spain and has seven objectives and 5 assists in all competitions. His kind has seen him linked with strikes to the likes of Barcelona and Actual Madrid whereas new Manchester United minority shareholder Sir Jim Ratcliffe stated the membership would make a recent determination on the way forward for the previous England worldwide.

Talking with reporters on the Monetary Instances Enterprise of Soccer Summit, Tebas stated he had little interest in judging Greenwood, who he stated had been discovered harmless when costs in opposition to him have really been dropped. 

“I am a lawyer,” stated the La Liga president. “For somebody that has come out of a authorized case harmless, there’s nothing to say. I feel it is good as a result of he is one other nice participant. Possibly the circumstances have made it simpler for him to return, however he is an important participant and I’ve obtained no different feedback to make.

“He is doing rather well at Getafe as a participant and I hope he continues to achieve success and continues to remain in Spanish soccer as a result of that is at all times good for us. When somebody is not condemned, what ought to now we have carried out? That is what courts exist for. It isn’t as much as me to know his case intimately. He’s simply one other participant.”

When it was subsequently put to him that Greenwood had not been discovered harmless, Tebas added, “Greenwood was not condemned, so I do not care.”

La Liga is at the moment investigating an allegation that Actual Madrid’s Jude Bellingham referred to as Greenwood a “rapist.” 

Tebas stated, “La Liga investigated Bellingham and let’s examine what occurs. It isn’t the primary time now we have carried out a lip-reading investigation and possibly he did not say what we predict.”

Greenwood at the moment has a contract at Manchester United that is because of run till 2025 with the membership holding an choice to increase that deal by 12 months. Following a prolonged inside investigation, the Purple Devils introduced in August that they deemed it applicable for the ahead to return to soccer away from Previous Trafford and it had been anticipated that he would make a everlasting departure in the summertime. Although that’s nonetheless seen because the likeliest occasion by these near the membership, Ratcliffe did point out {that a} new determination may very well be made when talking to reporters earlier this month.

“It is fairly clear now we have to decide,” stated Ratcliffe. “There isn’t a determination that is been made. He is on mortgage clearly, however he isn’t the one one. We have got one or two footballers that now we have to cope with and now we have to decide on, so we are going to do this. 

“The method will likely be: perceive the information, not the hype, after which attempt to come to a good determination on the idea of values, which is mainly: is he man or not, and reply might he play sincerely for Manchester United nicely and would we be snug with it and would the followers be snug with it?”