Manchester United have confirmed Memphis Depay has completed his move to Ligue 1 side Lyon this afternoon, with his former manager Jose Mourinho paying tribute to the former PSV Eindhoven winger.
“The guy is a fantastic professional, he’s a kid that respected everyone and worked hard to have more chances, a kid that was frustrated because he was not having that. I only have good things to say about him, and I think this is much more important.
“If I can find a little reason, it’s to say that he is a player from one position – the only position – where we have overbooking. He is a winger, and wingers is what we have more [of]. It’s the position where it’s more difficult to have chances, where it’s more difficult to be the next choice, because we never have problems in this position. We have [Jesse] Lingard, we have [Juan] Mata, we have [Henrikh] Mkhitaryan, we have [Anthony] Martial, we have Ashley Young, we have Marcus Rashford. It’s a position where we have maybe six possibilities, even [Wayne] Rooney played a few times from the left.
Memphis joined the club during Louis van Gaal’s time in charge but failed to nail down a regular place in the first team. After Mourinho’s arrival, the Dutchman’s game time was drastically reduced with his only start coming in the EFL Cup third round against Northampton Town.
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