ESPN Brasil is airing this weekend their Bola da Vez show featuring Manchester United striker Edinson Cavani.
To promote the program, they released on their website some bits of the interview they had with the 35-year-old, and they turned out to be quite interesting, with the player talking about Cristiano Ronaldo’s arrival at the club.
The Portuguese star was signed at the end of the summer window. And surprised by his arrival, Cavani claimed he thought of leaving the Red Devils at the time.
“Speaking the truth, for I always tell the truth, as it should be. At the moment it happened, I thought it was good that Manchester signed Cristiano. Knowing a little about the world of football today, the first thing I did was call my brother and I said: ‘Fernando, if this had happened a week ago, I would have asked you to sign with another club’,” Cavani told ESPN Brasil.
“But not because I didn’t want to play with Cristiano Ronaldo. No. Because I had the opportunity to meet him, and he’s a great professional, with his objectives, and that’s perfect for sportsmen. But as I know, after years in football, how things are these days… That’s why I was talking to my brother”
“It was more about understanding the situation. Not because I couldn’t play in my place at Manchester, but because there are a lot of things in football today that are different from how they were with other coaches, how it was before, years ago. But how it happened suddenly, at no time did I have any sensation. I thought: let’s play, do the best we can.”
Cavani also talked about the current season with Manchester United, where he’s been struggling with injuries and was only able to make 18 goals.
“Over time, regardless of my injuries at the club, which kept me a little out of the season… I went through difficult situations, different from what I faced last year. And after a few months, I called my brother again and said: ‘Remember what you said at the beginning of the season? Before the season started’. You see, I’m speaking as if we were sit next to each other. Here there are no secrets in football. For me, it’s all been made up, and I have a vision of football that nobody takes away from me.”
“So I called my brother and said that. Because he was like, ‘Be positive, Edi, you’ll do a good job…’ I said ‘yes, Fernando, I have no doubt it can be like this. But let’s see how things go with the time’. And everything happened and that’s it, here we are, adding up, like everywhere I’ve been, but my way of thinking and way of seeing football gave me reason in the first months and from then on… problems with injuries and I was a bit out. But that was a little bit of what happened in that period.”
Edinson Cavani’s contract with Manchester United expires at the end of the season, and as written by ESPN Brasil, it’s not expected to be renewed.
The player had been heavily linked to a move to South America, but recent reports have now been saying he’s more likely to stay in Europe, with the player perhaps ready for one last go on the Old Continent before heading back west.
