2010 UEFA Champions League winner, Sulley Muntari has opened up on his failed move to Manchester United after having trails with them in 2001.
Sulley Muntari, who played for Serie A rivals A.C Milan and Inter Milan during a glittering career in Europe.
He ended his six-months stay with Ghana Premier League side Hearts of Oak in the summer after failing to agree to an extension.
He scored an impressive twenty goals, from midfield, in eighty games for Ghana from 2002- 2014.
The 38-year-old said he signed for Italian club Udinese Calcio after Manchester United
"Sly (the late Sly Tetteh) took me to Manchester United for trials...At that time, Paul Scholes, Roy Keane, Beckham, and everybody so...Yeah it was very good I worked with the junior team. I spent a week or two and that was when the disaster happened. I was there when it happened and I came back home," he told Dan Kweku Yeboah TV.
"When I came we were waiting for United to give me the contract, so I sign and all that. So we were waiting for the contract to come but then Udinese came right away."
He further stated that he chose Udinese over Manchester United because they wanted to send him on loan to Royal Antwerp in Belgium because he had no national team experience.
"Man United was interested but I didn't play with the national team so I had to go to Belgium, Antwerp because they had a relationship with them. So you pick up," he concluded.
By: Abdul Razak Salim
