Roma owner James Pallotta has once again insisted that Kevin Strootman will not be allowed to join Manchester United.
The Dutch midfielder has been linked with a move to Old Trafford in recent transfer windows but any such deal this summer was halted after he picked up an injury which kept him out of his country’s World Cup in Brazil.
Further links are being made by Italian and English press, but once again – Roma owner Pallotta has insisted that the Dutch midfielder will not be allowed to join Manchester United.
“It is just not happening,” Roma’s billionaire owner told BBC Sport.
“I have told the papers that they should stop wasting paper. We don’t have any interest in selling Kevin.”
Pallotta did go on to say that keeping players at the club such as Strootman is as important as selling them for big amounts.
“Obviously, as businesspeople, when people call us and say ‘we want your player’, you are going to listen to them. You have to do that; that is the business side,” he explained.
“That doesn’t mean you are going to make a decision that, [an offer of] £75m, bang, you hit the bid. That is not the way it is going to work, it is not the way it does work with us.
“For others, maybe [money would talk in the end]. Our view is that we want to put a great team out there but we are not saying ‘we have to make a ton of money’. Our goal across the board is stability.”