(Update: former Manchester United Winger Memphis Depay has scored the first goal of his post Red Devils career)
Depay spoke at length and in depth publicly for the first time since his sale to Lyon. Depay was banished to the bench at Jose Mourinho’s United, and with a new team perhaps he will start seeing the pitch again with regularity.
Depay admits it was struggle for him, but also said he harbors no ill will towards Mourinho.
‘His words were nice. In Manchester, I always worked as I had to. For me personally, it wasn’t all that easy,’ Depay told OL TV when asked about his former boss.
I needed to play. But we didn’t have a bad relationship,’ the Dutchman added.
‘He’s a great coach and a great person. Now we’ll see here how I play. In any case, I think he has said good things about me.’
Depay was a total flop at United, and Louis van Gaal’s decision to bring him up from PSV Eindhoven backfired, but he’s not a bad guy. If given the right opportunities in the right situations, he could still develop into something special. Perhaps the leap from the Eredivisie to one of the world’s largest clubs was just a move that was just a little too big and too fast for Memphis Depay.
Perhaps now the move to Lyon will be a much better fit.
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