Former Manchester United midfielder Juan Mata has come out to say that his family members advised him to leave the club after Jose Mourinho joined. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he immediately told his grandfather that he would not leave because he never had a personal problem with Jose before his exit from Chelsea.
Mata added that staying and winning trophies under Mourinho is one of the proudest moments of his football career.
His words, “The first call that I received was from my family and from my granddad saying, ‘You have to leave. What’s going to happen?’ And I said, ‘No, I’m going to see how it goes. I don’t have any problem with him, and he doesn’t have any problems with me.’
It is one of the things that I’m most proud of in my career is to have remained, to be calm and say, ‘No, I’m going to try to show that I can play in his style.’ And I did so. Our relationship was very natural. Actually, we have a good relationship.
I played games and we won things together. I played in all the finals, so I felt like an important player in his squad. My family told me, ‘Okay, you were right,’ but they were panicking a little bit.”
WOW.
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