{"id":17795,"date":"2026-07-19T15:54:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2026\/07\/19\/vitek-says-he-wants-a-permanent-exit-in-search-of-first-team-football\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T15:54:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:54:02","slug":"vitek-says-he-wants-a-permanent-exit-in-search-of-first-team-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2026\/07\/19\/vitek-says-he-wants-a-permanent-exit-in-search-of-first-team-football\/","title":{"rendered":"V\u00edtek Says He Wants A Permanent Exit In Search Of First-Team Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radek V\u00edtek has made clear that he wants to leave Manchester United permanently if the right opportunity comes along, with the goalkeeper targeting a route to regular starts.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after keeping a clean sheet in his half of Saturday\u2019s 1-0 preseason defeat to Wrexham, V\u00edtek set out his position plainly. \u201cI feel great and ready to go again somewhere to hopefully be No. 1,\u201d V\u00edtek said after keeping a clean sheet in his half of Saturday\u2019s 1\u20130 preseason defeat to Wrexham . \u201cI hope there will be some interest. I think you will know when the things are more concrete.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m ready for both [a loan or a permanent exit] to be fair. It depends on what the club wants and also depends on the options and, yeah, we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been a few interests on the table, but we\u2019re hoping to get the best one and hopefully it will happen soon. I want to play every week and that\u2019s the goal for next season. Hopefully I find out soon where that\u2019s going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>United\u2019s reshuffle in goal began last summer, when Andr\u00e9 Onana was moved on and Senne Lammens arrived. After eight clean sheets in his first season, the 24-year-old remains Michael Carrick\u2019s preferred starter. Onana spent last season on loan with Trabzonspor and has already gone back to the Turkish side for another 12-month stint, while Altay Bay\u0131nd\u0131r could also leave after three years of limited opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>That situation had opened the door for a new deputy at Old Trafford this season, but United have not offered V\u00edtek that role. His own desire for regular football means he would not have settled for it anyway. Karl Darlow has since arrived from Leeds United, joining Lammens and 40-year-old Tom Heaton in Carrick\u2019s goalkeeping group, which leaves V\u00edtek with little obvious pathway after signing a new contract only last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>V\u00edtek wants to leave United permanently, with regular starts now his clear priority next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1796],"tags":[1001,436,1795],"class_list":["post-17795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united-transfer-news","tag-altay-bayindir","tag-andre-onana","tag-radek-vitek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}