Manchester United outcast Memphis Depay brings in the New Year by cracking open a bottle of champagne and spraying it everywhere
You'd think the Dutch international would want to keep out of the media eye after his shisha shenanigans
YOU would be forgiven for thinking Manchester United outcast Memphis Depay wouldn't be toasting in the New Year.
The 22-year-old Dutch international has barely played under Jose Mourinho this season, and failed to live up to expectations under previous boss Louis Van Gaal.
And over the festive season photographs emerged of him smoking a shisha pipe - equivalent to smoking 200 cigarettes.
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But as 2017 came in last night, the fleet-footed winger shared a video of himself on Instagram popping open the champagne, and wishing everybody a "Happy New Year"; while appearing to celebrate alone.
He begins by counting down from seven, and when he gets to two, he pops open the bottle of what looks like pink champagne, sprays it out, and pours himself a glass.
He is dressed in a smart suit with white dress shirt, and appears to be in a festive themed garden.
Yesterday SunSport revealed how 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.
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At the time then boss Louis van Gaal acclaimed him as the best player of his age in the world.
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.”