{"id":83485,"date":"2025-11-20T12:34:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/mane-reveals-rejection-of-united-due-to-lack-of-minutes-prioritized-liverpool\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:34:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:34:05","slug":"mane-reveals-rejection-of-united-due-to-lack-of-minutes-prioritized-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/mane-reveals-rejection-of-united-due-to-lack-of-minutes-prioritized-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Man\u00e9 Reveals Rejection of United Due to Lack of Minutes: Prioritized Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"Sadio Man\u00e9 revealed that he rejected a proposal from Manchester United a year before joining Liverpool, because he was not convinced by Louis van Gaal’s promise that he would play above figures like Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie and \u00c1ngel Di Mar\u00eda.\n\nThe Senegalese striker, in an interview for the podcast “Rio Ferdinand Presents”, detailed his conversations with the then United coach, Van Gaal, in the summer of 2015, when he was still playing for Southampton.\n\nFinally, Man\u00e9 chose to reject United and signed with Liverpool for 36 million pounds sterling (47 million dollars) a year later. With the “Reds”, the player contributed to the success of J\u00fcrgen Klopp’s team in the Champions League and the Premier League.\n\n
\"Sadio<\/figure>\n\nCurrently, the 33-year-old footballer shares a team with Cristiano Ronaldo at Al Nassr in the Saudi Professional League.\n\n

Manchester United called me at that time. I was talking to Van Gaal.<\/p>Sadio Man\u00e9<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nMan\u00e9 reported that he had a conversation with Van Gaal, in which the coach expressed his desire for him to join the team. However, the Senegalese player questioned his place in the starting eleven due to the presence of other important players such as Depay, Rooney and Di Mar\u00eda.\n\n

My question was: you have Depay, you have Rooney, you have Di Mar\u00eda, you have Van Persie, I think the same. So, where am I going to play? That was my question, because I want to play.<\/p>Sadio Man\u00e9<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nMan\u00e9 explained that he was not completely convinced by Van Gaal’s explanations and that he felt he still needed time to develop as a player.\n\nThe player also revealed that he held conversations with Tottenham Hotspur during the same summer and that he was more attracted to the possibility of playing under the direction of Mauricio Pochettino than to the proposal from Manchester United.\n\nAccording to Man\u00e9, he visited Tottenham’s facilities and was more convinced by the project than by Manchester United’s.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sadio Man\u00e9 revealed that he rejected a proposal from Manchester United a year before joining Liverpool, because he was not convinced by Louis van Gaal’s promise that he would play above figures like Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie and \u00c1ngel Di Mar\u00eda. The Senegalese striker, in an interview for the podcast “Rio Ferdinand Presents”, detailed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[138,143,10439,10440],"class_list":{"0":"post-83485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-liverpool","9":"tag-manchester-united","10":"tag-sadio-mane","11":"tag-van-gaal"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}