Jesse Lingard has acknowledged that he was “p*ssed” after Manchester United cancelled a January 2022 loan to Newcastle.
Jesse Lingard was anxious to restart his faltering career with a transfer to the North East after being shut out of the first squad at Old Trafford. However, despite a deal being almost finalised, Jesse Lingard’s chances of joining the Magpies were dashed when he received a call from John Murtough, director of football.
“I wanted to go on loan in January, because I wasn’t playing – again – and Newcastle was on the cards,” Lingard revealed on The Diary Of A CEO podcast. “The deal was done and everything, but obviously the United squad wasn’t big enough.
“So, they let a couple of players go out on loan, but when it came to me, John Murtough rang and said “No, you’re not going on loan.”
“I was like, ‘Well, he’s gone on loan – let me go and enjoy my football as I’m not playing here.’ He asked ‘What do you want, days off?’ and I said ‘No, I just want to go and play football.’
“So, then they stopped the loan – I was p***ed – and when he said ‘Did I want days off?’, so I messaged him and said ‘I am going to take two days off now, just because you said that’.
“Then they put out ‘Jesse’s asked for two days off in the media’, I was like ‘what?’ I went on Twitter straight away and put the facts out there.”
Lingard also criticised the way Manchester United has operated, claiming that ‘there was no control’ at the organisation following Alex Ferguson’s retirement in 2013.
After Jesse Lingard’s contract with Manchester United ended in the summer, Nottingham Forest acquired him on a free transfer. His 22-year relationship with the Red Devils, which also included a brief but highly successful loan spell with West Ham United, came to an end.
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