Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez has left Manchester United to join Bayer Leverkusen, the Bundesliga club announced on Monday.
Hernandez, 27, passed a medical with the Bundesliga club on Monday after he was allowed to travel to Germany with a reported fee of 8.75 million agreed.
United manager Louis van Gaal had signalled that the Mexico international would be one of his strikers for the season but that changed when the former Premier League champions moved to sign French forward Anthony Martial from Monaco for £36m.
And Hernandez’s last appearance for United came as a substitute in last week’s 4-0 win over Club Brugge, when he missed a penalty.
The forward, who joined from Guadalajara for £6.9m in 2010, leaves United after scoring 59 goals in 157 games for the club.
He was named their Player of the Year in the 2010-11 campaign, when he scored 20 goals, but has only started 16 Premier League games since the 2012 arrival of Robin van Persie.
Meanwhile, Borussia Dortmund have signed Manchester United midfielder Adnan Januzaj on a season-long loan.
Januzaj, who has three years left on his current United deal, started three of United’s past four games but was deemed surplus to requirements at the end of the transfer window.
The Belgium international, who was also a target for Everton and had been linked with West Ham and Sunderland, was allowed to leave as United prepared to bring in French forward Anthony Martial from Monaco for £36 million.
However, on Monday — the final day of the German transfer window — the Dortmund announced the 20-year-old’s switch to the current Bundesliga leaders.
“Adnan is a highly gifted and technically gifted player who completes our attacking department,” BVB director Michael Zorc told Dortmund’s website.
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