Barcelona’s Frenkie de Jong’s rejection of the troubled Manchester United was only an extension of a series of rejections that United have suffered in recent years.
Since Sir Alex Ferguson retired from training in the summer of 2013, 10 seasons ago, “Man U” is no longer the first English giant as it was since the beginning of the English Premier League system in 1992, until Sir’s retirement.
Hence, the refusal to move to Manchester United has become a natural matter for the players, especially if these players find offers from top England at the present time, such as Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea.
Dutchman Frenkie de Jong refused Manchester United because of not participating in the Champions League this season, and therefore the technical failure had a role in diverting attention from the Red Devils,
In addition to the reasons for the crises within the team and the lack of clarity of vision, regarding the future for coach Eric Tin Hag, who may be a new episode in the series of coaches’ failure with United.
Dimitri Payet
France midfielder Dimitri Payet refused to move to Manchester United in 2017, as he preferred Olympique Marseille, despite the player’s success before that in the English Premier League with West Ham United.
Payet says regarding the secret of his preference for Marseille over Manchester United, in statements to the French radio “Monte Carlo”: “I am not the one who feels regret, I made a choice, the choice was related to football and also to my family, who wanted to return to Marseille.”
He continued: “There was Manchester United and other clubs, but the issue was personal and family, I chose the best for my family.”
Jude Bellingham
Borussia Dortmund midfielder Judd Bellingham has been one of the names that has been closely associated with a move to Manchester United, in recent years.
Although Sir Alex Ferguson himself invited Bellingham to join United, the young player preferred Borussia Dortmund, when he decided to leave Birmingham City two years ago.
With the interest of England increasing recently in signing Bellingham, the player who enjoys the conviction of England coach Gareth Southgate may prefer an experience such as Manchester City or Liverpool and Chelsea over United.
Sadio Mane
Senegalese player Sadio Mane, the current Bayern Munich and former Liverpool player, refused to wear the Manchester United shirt.
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Dutchman Louis van Gaal, then United coach, asked Mane in 2015 to move to Manchester United, and indeed the most successful club in the history of the Premier League reached an agreement with the player.
But Mane preferred at the last moments to wear the Liverpool shirt because of his conviction in the German Jurgen Klopp project, especially following they spoke on the phone and the coach convinced his African star of his project.
Tony Cross
Toni Kroos, while at Bayern Munich in 2014, refused to move to Manchester United, preferring his current club Real Madrid.
Manchester United coach David Moyes revealed, at the time, that Kroos, like Mane, had reached an agreement with the United administration to move to the Theater of Dreams, but he changed his mind following Moyes’s dismissal in 2014 to choose Real Madrid, with whom he won 4 Champions League titles.
Gareth Bale
In 2017, Zinedine Zidane, the former Real Madrid coach, tried to get rid of Gareth Bale, the star of his team, so that Manchester United appeared in the picture, as one of the clubs nominated to include the player.
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2017 was an extraordinary year in which United won two trophies for the first time since Ferguson’s departure, the League Cup and the Europa League, but that was not tempting for Bale to leave Real.
At the time, Bale confirmed his refusal to move to Manchester United because he felt comfortable and happy at Real Madrid, to stay at the Santiago Bernabeu until the summer of this year.
Cesc Fabregas
In the summer of 2013, David Moyes, former United coach, asked in his first and last summer Mercato to sign Cesc Fabregas, but the 2010 world champion refused the offer, in order to stay in Barcelona.
Strangely enough, a year later Fabregas returned to the Premier League, not from the gate of his former team Arsenal, but in a Chelsea shirt, to win with him two Premier League titles, and a European League title.
Thiago Alcantara
In the summer of 2013, Spaniard Thiago Alcantara refused to move from Barcelona to Manchester United, preferring Bayern Munich, who was led at the time by Pep Guardiola.
Guardiola was the coach who gave Thiago the opportunity in Barcelona, and promoted him to the first team, before they achieved strong successes in Bayern Munich, which Thiago continued following Pep left Allianz Arena in 2016.
Thomas Muller
In the summer of 2016, Bayern Munich striker Thomas Muller refused to leave the Allianz Arena, towards Old Trafford.
In that period, Muller was at the height of his technical career and the English team made an offer worth 85 million pounds to include the player.
Muller rejected United two years earlier, when United coach Louis van Gaal, who discovered Muller in Bayern Munich 2009, and turned him into a key player in the team, tried to include him, preferring to work with Guardiola in Munich.
N’Golo Kanti
One of the stars Manchester United lost in the post-Ferguson era was Frenchman N’Golo Kante, who joined Chelsea from Leicester City in the summer of 2016 following winning the Premier League.
Kante recounts that he spoke by phone with Manchester United coach Jose Mourinho, and with the Italian Antonio Conte, the Chelsea coach at the time, to persuade the latter to move to Stamford Bridge.
About this, the 2018 world champion says: “It was amazing that Mourinho called me, and I was warned that he would like him, and I listened to his reasons for the preference of my move to United, but I felt better when I spoke to Conte and decided to move to Chelsea.”
Antoine Griezmann
In 2018, the name of the Frenchman, Antoine Griezmann, was associated with the move from Atletico Madrid to Manchester United, where he wanted to play next to his compatriot Paul Pogba.
But despite Griezmann’s conviction, Argentine coach Diego Simeone intervened to convince his first star at the time to stay, in the Spanish capital, Madrid, which is what happened.
Sergio Ramos
In the summer of 2015, Sergio Ramos, the historical defender of Real Madrid, and the current star of Paris Saint-Germain, was linked with a move to Manchester United.
It was said at the time that the differences between Ramos and Real Madrid president Florentino Perez would push him to move to Manchester United, but the opposite happened, as the Spanish international signed a new contract that kept him for years at the Bernabeu.
It was said at the time that Ramos used Manchester United as a means of putting pressure on the Real Madrid management to give him a better contract.
