Ander Herrera gets emotional talking about when he left Manchester United
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Is this a resurfaced video? Sure I’ve seen it before.
He clearly loved the club, and didn’t get the send off he deserved. Not sure why he was let go tbh.
He clearly loved the club, and didn’t get the send off he deserved. Not sure why he was let go tbh.
Yeah it was from a Utd podcast posted earlier.
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/man-utd-podcast-ander-herrera.474520/
Herrera was let go while Phil Jones got a new contract,go figure.
It came up on my YouTube, been posted 10 days ago, so I thought I'd share it.
Always knew the guy cared, didn't expect him to get emotional about it. Was a tidy player in my opinion. Always liked him.
Always knew the guy cared, didn't expect him to get emotional about it. Was a tidy player in my opinion. Always liked him.
Don't worry, some will be in shortly to proclaim it all an act, pandering to the fans.
Always liked Herrera. Not a world beater but performed his role when called upon and always a good professional. One of the more likeable players we've signed post SAF.
It wasn't necessarily the wrong decision to try and upgrade on him (though the manner it happened was amateurish) but of course the issue was that we didn't exactly sign anyone much (if at all!) better than him.
Always liked Herrera. Not a world beater but performed his role when called upon and always a good professional. One of the more likeable players we've signed post SAF.
It wasn't necessarily the wrong decision to try and upgrade on him (though the manner it happened was amateurish) but of course the issue was that we didn't exactly sign anyone much (if at all!) better than him.
He sat on a fat offer from PSG and saw out his contract to leave on a free just like a bunch of other players did around that time.
The club offered him an extension in reasonable time (started negotiating when he entered his last year before his year extension, so effectively 2 years before his contract expired and he decided to take a big pay day with PSG and then pretend it was because the club delaying showed how little they respected him.
He should work in PR after football.
Again? Does he ever stop cryin?
Cracking little player who would have had a spot in any of our SAF squads.
I'll always love him for blighting the legacy of Steven 'Zidane' Gerrard.
I'll always love him for blighting the legacy of Steven 'Zidane' Gerrard.
Left for £
He gets a lot of love for someone who was overall a pretty mediocre player during his time here
And they wouldn’t be wrong. This guy should work in PR or politics.
Almost as boring and fake when he talks about United as Di Maria‘s wife.
Herrera was a very good player, I liked him and had a lot to offer. You can tell he cares about the club. But...
he got offered £300,000 a week to play for PSG, United wouldn't match his salary so he left. He wasn't worth that salary at all as shown by his limited impact at PSG, so United were right not to offer him £300k a week at almost 30 years of age. We have more than enough older players on salaries like that that don't deserve them. He went for the money, plain and simple. Reports were that United offered him a contract half that amount that he could have taken if he loved the club that much. I don't blame him for leaving for more money to Paris but don't need a sob story about it.
he got offered £300,000 a week to play for PSG, United wouldn't match his salary so he left. He wasn't worth that salary at all as shown by his limited impact at PSG, so United were right not to offer him £300k a week at almost 30 years of age. We have more than enough older players on salaries like that that don't deserve them. He went for the money, plain and simple. Reports were that United offered him a contract half that amount that he could have taken if he loved the club that much. I don't blame him for leaving for more money to Paris but don't need a sob story about it.
Thank you for summarising the whole thing very well. Bravo!
To add to this, I think Ole even tried to keep him by offering to bridge the salary gap a bit but he had already agreed to join PSG before January.
Should that be the only influential factor on whether we should ' like' a player or not?
Should be a politician when he retires. I don't doubt his sincerity, but like his mates De Gea and Mata, he probably couldn't believe his luck to be playing for a club that pays top wages without expecting top performances in return.
For too long United has felt like some sort of leisure club for the benefit of the players rather than as a professional team looking to win trophies.
Club got it right for once to not give him £300k, if only they'd done the same with Martial.
For too long United has felt like some sort of leisure club for the benefit of the players rather than as a professional team looking to win trophies.
Club got it right for once to not give him £300k, if only they'd done the same with Martial.
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You think so? I actually always thought he was a decent/sincere bloke (from the little we get to know about players anyway). Never really got the dislike for him.
I suppose there's a few things I don't mind about this scenario (& possibly a slightly different chain of events). We supposedly got back to him very late with a contract offer, and at that time he'd already received the PSG offer? My timeline might be wrong though. I'm not too invested in these.
Then from a playing perspective, he wasn't worth the money PSG offered, but i don't really hold it against him for going where they offered him more money. At least he didn't end up overstaying his welcome with us and/or another player not able to propel us forward, sitting on a fat paycheck who we're unable to shift.
My favourite player of the post Fergie era pretty much, we should have kept him.
I'm in the "should work in PR" camp.
he cared for the club when he played, it's not like he didn't give a shit.
And maybe he likes United a lot relative to someone who only played a couple of seasons at the club.
But it's not the first time that I see him going way over the top to convey this message. Sobbing, getting teary...
We get it, he liked it here. He also liked the PSG offer and went for it, which is fair enough.
Why there seems to be a need to keep interviewing him as a former United player is a bit puzzling.
he cared for the club when he played, it's not like he didn't give a shit.
And maybe he likes United a lot relative to someone who only played a couple of seasons at the club.
But it's not the first time that I see him going way over the top to convey this message. Sobbing, getting teary...
We get it, he liked it here. He also liked the PSG offer and went for it, which is fair enough.
Why there seems to be a need to keep interviewing him as a former United player is a bit puzzling.
He’d fit in pretty well in our current team I think. Not at his age now but back when he was in his prime.
MUTV/MUFC did one podcast with him. As they have done with multiple of our former players. Some who did more for the club than Herrera and some who did less. This clip is from that same podcast so it's not like there's several interviews of him crying about leaving the club.
He left because PSG offered him bags of money
Such an overrated acting player.
Acts like he cares for the club but ran around as soon as he got a chance & ultimately failed.
Acts like he cares for the club but ran around as soon as he got a chance & ultimately failed.
I've just realised he looks like a younger Nick Clegg and now I can't unsee it.
He did a lot of that for us too, to be fair.
Sold himself for money and cheap trophies.
We will see Harry Kane doing the same in a few years.
We will see Harry Kane doing the same in a few years.
Part of Woodward's genius tactic of deliberately running players contracts down, then having to offer them all a new one at the last minute to try and stop half the squad leaving on a free at the same time, and leaving us stuck with the ones who couldn't find an offer elsewhere in the meantime.
Funny people saying he left for money. The club literally didn't offer him a contract at all until months after he'd have had no choice but to look for another club (and start looking at relocating his family, etc.). You'd have to be an idiot to want to stay after being treated like that. Especially when you're free to go wherever you want without a transfer fee needing negotiating.
Personally, if this came from Herrera’s post PSG move interview then I think it’s bullsh*t and just another act.
1. media
https://www.sportsjoe.ie/amp/footba...-manchester-united-almost-double-wages-198468
2. Herrera explaining we didn’t offer in time
https://www.football365.com/news/ander-herrera-reveals-truth-behind-man-utd-exit-ed-woodward
We literally have given every single player incredibly high wages and plenty who have been over payed enough to ruin our wage structure. I really doubt that Herrera didn’t get a contract - neither do I accept that he didn’t get a bloody good one.
Just another act from Hererra IMO.
What a hypocrite. If he loved United so much then he wouldn't have demanded they match PSG's contract offer to consider staying.
He claimed we didn't offer him a new contract in time. In time for what? Unless we only offered it to him as he was signing for PSG then this is a load of nonsense.
I would have more respect for him if he didn't insult people's intelligence and just said I got offered a once in a lifetime fortune and took the deal. Instead of pretending he had no other option than to take a massive payrise elsewhere.
He claimed we didn't offer him a new contract in time. In time for what? Unless we only offered it to him as he was signing for PSG then this is a load of nonsense.
I would have more respect for him if he didn't insult people's intelligence and just said I got offered a once in a lifetime fortune and took the deal. Instead of pretending he had no other option than to take a massive payrise elsewhere.
He's an extraordinarily well paid professional footballer. I think he can cope with a bit of uncertainty once every few years about where his next job will take him, without burning all his bridges where he lives the moment he starts looking into a move. When I was working as a junior doc, I rotated jobs every 6 months for years and rarely knew where I would be living next more than a couple of months in advance. If he was really as keen to stay at United as he implies he was in that video I reckon he could have made it work.
It was a good decision to not extend him. He's hardly done anything post United to prove it was a mistake.
Decent player for us overall. Better than most of the shite during his tenure here but not the top level.
Decent player for us overall. Better than most of the shite during his tenure here but not the top level.
I'm not sure why you think he would make it up other than so you can justify slagging him off about it, because he has absolutely no motive and nothing to gain from saying what he's said, other than that he gave an interview and was asked about it. If he didn't care about Man Utd I'm also not really sure why he'd agree to do a sit down podcast interview with MUTV to spend ages talking specifically about Man Utd, where aside from this one tiny clip above he is not remotely critical (if you can even call anything he says in the clip critical).
Why are people on here so determined to hate our current and past players based on the most pointless and illogical of reasons? He decided to leave and even if it was for money, United could have offered him more or offered him a better contract sooner. Its no justified reason at all to criticise him or any other footballer who does the same. He didn't strop out of training to force a move or slag the club off to Piers Morgan. His contract ran out and he left. Most clubs aren't dumb enough to get themselves into a situation like that regardless of whether they want to keep a player or not. I remember we had nearly a third of our squad in this situation around the time of this happening with Herrera, which is astoundingly stupid.
Sorry but if I'm a professional footballer and my current club does not offer me a new contract at a point where other clubs will, then obviously I'm going to listen to other offers and then expect my current club to offer something as good or better. Who wouldn't do this other than idiots?...and in the football world even idiots have agents who would make this point for them. This isn't a weird or unjustified way for an employee to behave at all. If I cared about the club I also reckon it'd just piss me off more that they didn't sort out a contract before allowing this situation to occur. Once the better offer is there elsewhere the thought process would be "well why couldn't/can't United just offer me that? its not like they can't afford it"
I don't think its comparable to our jobs either. Football clubs with any sense don't generally let players get into the last 12 months of a contract. They will either make a major effort to keep them or sell them before that point. Otherwise they lose millions in potential sale of an asset and risk being held to ransom by players who they don't even really want but suddenly can't afford to let go. This is why Man Utd ended up stuck with Phil Jones. Even so I've worked in temporary positions between exams etc. in my time. Anywhere employing me under any contract that had an end date on it could get stuffed if somewhere else offered me better, or they fecked me about sorting an extension out for no apparent reason. Why deal with uncertainty when you don't have to? Why is this somehow a stick for people to beat Herrera with rather than simply an indication the club was being run extremely badly?
Tbh its not specifically a Herrera thing, but it just reminds me of how dumb the whole situation was where we had like 8-9 players out of contract at the same time and then suddenly started offering them all new ones. Just classic Woodward insanity.
Edit: it was actually 11 players out of contract. Nearly half the squad https://www.redcafe.net/threads/11-...-expiring-in-the-summer.442143/#post-23173834
Never mind how you would feel you'd been treated, you'd have to factor in what kind of a mess you're going to be signing yourself back into and whether you'd end up being the only one left!
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He's the ChatGPT of correctness when it comes to PR of the football world.
Didn't mind him as a player but never thought He was top class and just another in the long line of never getting us back to where we was signings imo which carried on for years.
Obviously.
Who cares if these people are human beings, they're millionaires and play football for a living, judging them and their character based on anything other than how they perform on the pitch is foolish.
The guy there explains the situation you miserable sods, get over it
We should have paid him £300k a week? Give over
This man will be a politician when he finally retires.