Angel Di Maria's wife has revealed their ordeal in England when Angel joined Manchester United.
The Argentine moved to Old Trafford from Real Madrid for £59.7million in August 2014 - at that time one of the most expensive transfers of all time - but was sold 11 months later at a £15m loss after a hugely disappointing season.
And his spouse Jorgelina Cardoso has opened up on their nightmare in Manchester - labelling English food 'disgusting' and claiming she wanted to 'kill herself' because 'it's nighttime at 2pm' in an interview with Argentinean TV channel LAM.
She said: 'Angel came to me one day and said: "Look at this proposal from Manchester United". I didn't want to go, I told him to go alone. "Let's go both of us", he replied. It was a lot of money, more than the Spaniards had offered. So, we went. If you work in a company and someone offers you double the salary, you go running.
'We were friends with Gianinna Maradona, Sergio Aguero's wife, and we travelled to Manchester on vacation for a year. It was always horrible! We came home and I said: "If you're ever transferred, make sure it's anywhere in the world but England."
'I didn't like it at all... I can tell you. People are all weird. You walk around and you don't know if they're going to kill you. The food is disgusting. The women look like porcelain. Angel and I were in Madrid, at the best team in the world, perfect food, perfect weather, everything was perfect. And then came United's proposal....
'I told him "no way, no way", but he kept saying we will be a little more financially secure and we have to go. We fought about it... We try to be closer when things go wrong. I don't blame him for going there. It was horrible, so horrible. I just told him, "Darling, I want to kill myself, it's nighttime at two o'clock."'
Di Maria's move to United - currently the 28th most expensive of all time - is widely considered to be a failure after he struggled to fit into manager Louis van Gaal's system and only scored four goals in 32 appearances in all competitions.
The 34-year-old moved to Paris Saint-Germain in summer 2015 and spent seven successful years there, winning 18 trophies, before joining Italian side Juventus on a free transfer in July.
YakubuAutaSaad
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She might even be the reason he flopped with her ever nagging big mouth. If he comes home every day from training and meets a unsettled nagging spouse he'll be mentally disturbed and that will for sure affects his performance at the club. She's a weakling and that attitude drag him down.
YaYaNkauye
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Di Maria was never happy at man united because of the fact that his wife was never happy in England. You are the reason he failed to play good football.
YMO
9
Yeah, the nightmare started when he joined only for money.
meybcemny
8
If you are complaining about the weather in England 🏴, I would agree with you but the food you could have hired a chef from your homeland or cook your own special meal because the money 💵 was enough and coming weekly. Laziness will kill these girl 😅😅😅