Evra: My heart wanted United stay

The French defender did not have the best of seasons in the eyes of the fans, well in our opinion he didn’t peform as well has he had done previously.  I’m personally expecting a big season off Evra – after four years in the team he really has become an automatic selection in Fergie’s side.

Evra felt that after four years at United it was time to try something new and claims that Real Madrid and Inter were interested.

“Sometimes you have to make a choice in your life and there was an approach from two big clubs, Inter Milan and Real Madrid, and I just had a chat about it with the boss,” said Evra.

“After the World Cup, I’d told him that I wanted to go, but when I went to his house we talked a lot and in the end he didn’t have to persuade me to stay because my heart wanted to stay.

“He just said, ‘Pat, it’s the greatest news you want to stay because United are the biggest club in the world and you have a lot of respect here for myself, your team-mates, the fans. I don’t know why you want to move to another club. But I think you’ve made the right choice to stay here’.

“I’m very close to Sir Alex and have a lot of respect for him, and a lot of respect for myself. It wasn’t anything incredible, it was just normal.

“The boss has to be the boss, but he also has to look like he’s the dad of everyone.

“I made the right choice and I’m so happy. It was an easy decision because, if I am honest, I knew I wanted to stay at this club and achieve more.”