Palace director drove Ebiowei into United snub
Malcolm Ebiowei ignored Manchester United’s Erik ten Hag and Steve McClaren to hitch Crystal Palace – with Crystal Palace sporting director Dougie Freedman DRIVING him to his signing.
Highly-rated Ebiowei, 18, has moved to Selhurst Park from Derby on a free — a deal we first revealed in April.
McClaren was a technical director on the Rams and tried to get the winger to observe him in a sequence of telephone calls. Ebiowei even snubbed a textual content from new boss Ten Hag.
But London teen Ebiowei was swayed to hitch the Eagles after transfer-guru Freedman made it his private campaign.
The membership’s sporting director met him twice, then went again to see him in a South London gymnasium last week earlier than displaying him round Palace’s amenities.
Then the canny Scot turned up on the participant’s door to take him for his medical and signing.