Leaving Club Quotes

It's difficult to leave FC Bayern. Everything has to fall in place to top this club if I do it.

It's tough to leave one of the greatest clubs in the world.

My lowest point in football? Probably leaving United.

It wasn't easy to leave Barcelona. I fulfilled a dream when I moved there - to play in Spain and for the champions - but very few players stay in the same club all their life. To leave is normal.

It's clear that I will not be returning to Barca.

I hear a lot of rumours about me selling the club or leaving, absolutely no way.

It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club. I would like to state that I have great respect for the club, its supporters, and the owner, Sheikh Mansour, who has been nothing other than respectful to me.

It was a very difficult decision to leave United.

I think that with West Ham, it was more complicated for me. It happened naturally; there was urgency to leave West Ham.

I was playing regularly for United up to when I left.

It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club; that's just normal.