Memphis Depay: Manchester United outcast tells Jose Mourinho he wants out of Old Trafford
The winger has barely featured all season and has lost the trust from his manager who prefers other players instead of him
MEMPHIS DEPAY has told Jose Mourinho he wants out of Manchester United and the club will listen to offers for him in the New Year.
The winger has had an unhappy time since he moved to Old Trafford from PSV Eindhoven for £25 million in June 2015.
At the time then boss Louis van Gaal acclaimed him as the best player of his age in the world.
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But Mourinho said: “He was not playing last season. It was not that last season he was playing phenomenally and this season he is not playing at all. That’s not the situation.
“I have to say that in the past couple of months my decisions in relation to Memphis were influenced by the feelings and information that he would like to leave in January and that we were going to have a real offer that we would be willing to accept.
“That obviously influences me.
“If I know, if I have the feeling that a player is leaving - if I have to give chances and develop other players - then I go to Lingard, Mkhitaryan, Martial, the players I know 100 per cent who are going to stay with us. It is a position where we have more options.”
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Memphis, 22, was the top scorer in the Dutch league as PSV won the title the season before he joined United.
While he has made over 50 appearances for the Red Devils only 28 of them have been starts and he has scored just seven goals.
Memphis was pictured this week in SunSport smoking on a shisha pipe but Mourinho insists the player, who was top scorer in the Dutch league the season before he joined United, has no problem with him.
Mourinho said: “He’s a very good professional, is the only thing I can say.
“I know the public image is always influenced by some details of their private lives but the reality is that he is a very good professional, a very good boy.
“He has a high level of education, super polite, super professional, and works really hard.
“If you arrive in January and nothing happens - and we have lots of matches - then if he is going to be my player until the end of the season I will help him and he will be useful for us.”
Wayne Rooney is still out of action with a thigh injury.