Once again Angel Di Maria has expressed outspoken candor about his time at Manchester United. The Paris Saint-Germain winger, who came to the Red Devils from Real Madrid for £59.7 million, the richest transfer fee in British football history, has taken aim at United Manager Louis van Gaal once again.
One of the biggest transfer flops in English Premier League history, Di Maria was sold off to PSG last summer in a very long and ugly transfer deal.
Di Maria has repeatedly spoken out about Van Gaal, essentially blaming him for the poor form that he displayed at Old Trafford.
Yes, he’s done this before. In the past, Di Maria has even said that he didn’t even want to join United, and that he only did so to wait out PSG’s transfer ban.
Di Maria, who played six different positions during his time with the English giants told BBC Sport:
“It’s not nice to say certain things but it’s more that they didn’t let me settle properly than I couldn’t settle.”
“I left and the team are still playing the same way. Out of the European competitions, far from being champions of the Premier League.”
“I don’t think it was my fault or the fault of my teammates. Every time I was given the opportunity, I did all I could but it didn’t work out as I hoped. So I decided to leave, not only to be happy but to win things.”
Wow! These words seem pretty classless and utterly unneeded. If things are so great for Di Maria in the French capital right now, then why bother to point out the struggles United are having right now? Why hasn’t the Argentine Winger “simply moved on?”
Someone of Di Maria’s stature and pay grade should be above this, but he felt the need to continue venting. Di Maria cited his constant position switches as reason for his ineffectiveness.
“I started a game in one position then the next game in another. I scored goals playing in one position, then suddenly the next game I was picked to play in a different position. I think this also didn’t help me settle,” he said.
“It’s up to the manager to decide where and how every player should play, but I think that the player should be comfortable in that position and adapt to it. That is what I’m doing here [at Paris] and I’m very thankful to the manager for it.”
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