Lyon star Memphis Depay has revealed what he has told Jose Mourinho before leaving Manchester United.
Depay joined Red Devils in summer of 2015, but failed to impress Jose Mourinho since the arrival of Portuguese in 2016.
He left Manchester United on January of 2017 to join Lyon. Depay has since become one of the best players in League 1. He has also impressed during UEFA Nations League, when he helped Netherlands to qualify for semifinals.
‘When I left, I said to Mourinho ‘you will see me at the top,’ he told The Times (via
Metro). ‘He said “OK, I hope that and I hope we will buy you back one day.” I never had a bad relationship with him.’
‘We didn’t fall out, it was just a misconnection with each other,’ he said. ‘As a team we didn’t play great football and some things I don’t understand — if you have talented young players, Anthony Martial, Luke Shaw and the others, they need freedom"