{"id":1241847,"date":"2022-11-02T13:38:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T13:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/02\/why-my-move-to-manchester-united-collapsed\/"},"modified":"2022-11-02T13:38:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T13:38:45","slug":"why-my-move-to-manchester-united-collapsed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/02\/why-my-move-to-manchester-united-collapsed\/","title":{"rendered":"Why my move to Manchester United collapsed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"541\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1667396325_512_gettyimages-677156608-2048x2048-1-696x541.jpg\"   alt=\"Sulley Muntari, Ghana (Photo by Mike Egerton - PA Images via Getty Images)\" title=\"Sulley Muntari, Ghana   (Photo by Mike Egerton - PA Images via Getty Images)\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sulley Muntari, Ghana   (Photo by Mike Egerton &#8211; PA Images via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Black Stars midfielder, Sulley Muntari,\u00a0has opened up on his failed move to Premier League side, Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>Muntari, who is a former AC Milan and Inter Milan ace, revealed that he had his first trial abroad at Manchester United in 2001, spending two weeks with their youth team.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, though he had a good trial, he had to return home after the May 9th stadium disaster that happened in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlay (Sellas Tetteh) took me to Manchester United for trials\u2026At that time, Paul Scholes, Roy Keane, Beckham, and everybody so\u2026Yeah 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,\u201d he told Dan Kweku Yeboah TV.<\/p>\n<p>He said while waiting on Man United to send the contract and complete the deal, Udinese presented a deal, which he signed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While explaining why the United deal broke down, he said the English Premier League side wanted him to join their sister club, Royal Antwerp on loan for further assessment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan United was interested but I didn\u2019t play with the national team so I had to go to Belgium, Antwerp because they had a relationship with them. So you pick up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Muntari\u00a0started his career at Liberty Professionals before moving to Udinese and then to Portsmouth, where he established. He later returned to Italy and played for giants like Inter Milan and AC Milan.<\/p>\n<p>He is one of the few Ghanaian players to have won the Champions League and FIFA Club World Cup alongside the Italian Serie A title.<\/p>\n<p>Muntari was part of the Black Stars squad that qualified the country for the 2006 World Cup in Germany and went in to play in the 2010 and 2014 in South Africa and Brazil respectively.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"9_OkpoyqzG8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam Sports on Adom TV (01-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9_OkpoyqzG8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sulley Muntari, Ghana (Photo by Mike Egerton &#8211; PA Images via Getty Images) Former Black Stars midfielder, Sulley Muntari,\u00a0has opened up on his failed move to Premier League side, Manchester United. Muntari, who is a former AC Milan and Inter Milan ace, revealed that he had his first trial abroad at Manchester United in 2001, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1239573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2668,1762,503,2822],"class_list":["post-1241847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-collapsed","tag-manchester","tag-move","tag-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}