{"id":702,"date":"2019-03-01T10:31:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/2019\/03\/01\/boateng-reveals-reason-for-turning-down-mourinho-and-man-utd\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T10:17:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T10:17:30","slug":"boateng-reveals-reason-for-turning-down-mourinho-and-man-utd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"Boateng reveals reason for turning down Mourinho and Man Utd"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The German defender confirmed reports that he drew interest over the summer while offering insight into why he turned down a pair of potential moves <\/p>\n

Jerome Boateng has confirmed reports that both Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain were interested in him this summer while revealing that Jose Mourinho was unable to convince him to leave Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n

The German defender was the topic of transfer rumours throughout the summer window, but opted to remain with Bayern\u00a0for his eighth season with the club.<\/p>\n

Boateng had previously played in the Premier League for Manchester City, but the 30-year-old defender could not be tempted to leave Bayern, even if the thought of a new club intrigued him.<\/p>\n

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“I had enquiries from PSG and Manchester United,\u2019 Boateng told Bild. <\/em> <\/p>\n

“I did not want just to get away from Bayern, but I was thrilled to try a new challenge.<\/p>\n

“I feel well at Bayern. It\u2019s one of the biggest clubs in the world.”<\/p>\n

Boateng went onto reveal that he personally spoke to\u00a0Mourinho regarding Manchester United’s interest.<\/p>\n

Mourinho was adamant on bringing another centre-back to Old Trafford, with Harry Maguire also viewed as a target.<\/p>\n

However, Maguire said he never had concrete thoughts of leaving Leicester City \u00a0and\u00a0Boateng also revealed he wasn’t fully convinced of a move.<\/p>\n

“I called Jose Mourinho, I told him that his interest was an honor for me and thanked him for trying so hard for me,” Boateng said.<\/p>\n

“I explained to Jose that it\u2019s difficult to leave Bayern, and if I do, everything has to be in place to top this club.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click:Pool algaecide wholesale The German defender confirmed reports that he drew interest over the summer while offering insight into why he turned down a pair of potential moves Jerome Boateng has confirmed reports that both Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain were interested in him this summer while revealing that Jose Mourinho was unable to convince…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11724,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/11724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}