Manchester United flop Memphis Depay set for summer exit as fast cars and fashion faux pas overshadow on-pitch efforts
MEMPHIS DEPAY’S pathetic Premier League career looks certain to end in the summer after details emerged of his apparent disconnect with important people at the club.
The left-sided attacker was a £25million summer signing when he moved to Old Trafford after a seriously impressive final season with PSV where he hit 22 league goals.
At United, however, the Dutchman has been a huge disappointment with just two top-flight strikes – the last one coming back in November.
Despite his blatant failings, the 22-year-old is still cruising around Manchester in a £250,000 Rolls Royce Phantom with personalised plates and
Of the 14 Premier League matches he has started, he has been hauled off in six and he has sat through seven whole matches on the bench watching on.
Back in February Depay called assistant boss Ryan Giggs a legend, adding: “He talks a lot with me and gives me advice to equip me. He has experienced everything already so he helps with all kinds of things, he works a lot with me”.
However, it seems the Welshman is one of the people who have lost patience with the Netherlands international.
Despite his blatant failings, the 22-year-old is still cruising around Manchester in a £250,000 Rolls Royce Phantom with personalised plates and
Of the 14 Premier League matches he has started, he has been hauled off in six and he has sat through seven whole matches on the bench watching on.
Back in February Depay called assistant boss Ryan Giggs a legend, adding: “He talks a lot with me and gives me advice to equip me. He has experienced everything already so he helps with all kinds of things, he works a lot with me”.
However, it seems the Welshman is one of the people who have lost patience with the Netherlands international.
Even Holland hero Ruud Gullit has stuck the boot into his fellow countryman, saying: “He wants to become a really good footballer, but at the same time he wants to be a global superstar and a style icon.
“I think to myself, ‘boy oh boy, do it in the right order. You have to perform, perform and perform again.’
“Once Memphis has won a lot of trophies then I don’t care if he wants to be as crazy as Dennis Rodman - or even crazier.
“My question to him is: how do you want to be remembered in life, as an odd character with a hat and a Rolls Royce? Or as a footballer?”
Giggs himself flirted with being a party boy alongside United academy graduate Lee Sharpe before a Sir Alex Ferguson hairdryer treatment set him on the straight and narrow path to an incredible career.
Unfortunately for Depay it seems his chance to become Old Trafford’s next left-sided superstar has passed, with the big-money flop at the front of the queue to be axed as United face another summer overhaul.