Ederson agrees personal terms with Manchester United for a five-year deal to 2031
Manchester United have agreed personal terms with Atalanta midfielder Ederson and look set to make the 26-year-old Brazil international the first signing of their summer window.
The deal is reported as a five-year contract running to 2031 at around €5 million a year, roughly £83,000 a week before bonuses. United are now expected to follow up with a formal offer to Atalanta of about €45 million, the asking price the Italian club has set for a player whose contract at Bergamo runs until 2027. Add-ons could push the final fee to €60 million. Italian journalist Nicolo Schira was first to report the personal-terms agreement.
The Atalanta midfielder, not the City keeper
Because Brazil currently has two well-known Edersons, a clarification is worth doing every time. This one is not the Manchester City goalkeeper but the central midfielder, full name Éderson José dos Santos Lourenço da Silva, who joined Atalanta from Salernitana in July 2022 and grew under Gian Piero Gasperini into one of Serie A's best ball-carrying number sixes. He has stayed first-choice through a turbulent year in Bergamo, surviving Ivan Juric's short post-Gasperini stint before settling under Raffaele Palladino, and his 40-appearance, three-goal campaign across all competitions has kept him on Brazil's senior radar with a 2026 World Cup on the calendar.
For United, the profile reads as the line-breaking number six that has been missing from a midfield rotation. Casemiro has already confirmed he is leaving on a free this summer at the end of his contract, leaving Michael Carrick's revived squad without its most experienced holder. Ederson breaks lines with the ball, is comfortable receiving on the half-turn against pressing teams, and has produced his best football for an Atalanta side built on intensity rather than possession dominance, which fits the work-rate template Carrick has leaned on since replacing Ruben Amorim in January.
Atalanta open the door, Atletico back off
Atalanta have built themselves around player trading for years, and selling Ederson now with two years left on his deal is the kind of call they have repeatedly chosen over letting a star drift towards a free. Atletico Madrid had been the other serious suitor and pushed talks deep into the spring before pulling back, with reports saying the €45 million asking price was higher than the Spanish club was willing to spend. Arsenal were also linked earlier in the window but have lost ground since United accelerated.
The 2026 Premier League window opens on 15 June and closes on 31 August, so United still need to convert the personal-terms agreement into a signed deal with Atalanta. Nothing official is binding until that side of the negotiation closes, and Bergamo's record of holding out for full asking prices is well documented. But the player has chosen United, the club has chosen a fee bracket, and that is usually the stretch where these things finish.
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