Manchester United captain B Fee was interviewed and explained in detail the rumors of his move to Saudi Arabia this summer.
"The first conversation was in Malaysia (during the club's end-of-season tour) when it all started. I spoke to Omar and told him: 'Look, this is an offer on the table. I know the club may look at it one way and I look at it another way. So I just want to know from your perspective what you want to do. Jason and Omar both said: 'We're not going to say no, but obviously we want you to stay at the club but if you want to leave, we're not going to say it's not a good offer for us because of the amount. Huge. ' "
"Riyadh Crescent's offer may range from 80 million to 100 million pounds. After that, I communicated with the coach. I said: 'Look, this is the offer I got. I have to think about if the club says they want me to leave because we want to bring in more players or for other reasons. 'But that's not the case. The club always told me they would strengthen the squad. "
"The coach said to me: 'No, we want more players to help you and make the team better, so we don't want you to leave. ' "
According to The Athletic understands that even on the day B Fee held a press conference to announce his stay with the team, Riyadh Crescent still raised its contract offer to an astonishing 40 million euros in annual salary after tax plus 10 million euros in bonuses. Riyadh Crescent chairman Ferhad bin Nafir was sitting in Paris before the Club World Cup in preparation for B Fee to agree to the transfer.
"I don’t think they were happy that I turned down the offer, " Fernandez said. "I understand because the salary in that offer was very generous. The difference is huge. "
Amorim spoke to staff on the Monday before the start of the Premier League season and praised Fernandez for rejecting the offer.
"Money is important to everyone in life, but I'm not yet at the point where I need to be careful about my budget, or where I'll be in trouble in the future if I don't handle it right. My family and I are not spendthrifts. We like to enjoy luxury, but we are very aware of how long the future is, what we want to give our children, and how we want them to grow up. "
"We were never short of food and clothing, but we were very conscious because we still had family in Portugal. My mother knew how hard life was. To be honest, when I finished my career, I just wanted to live a relaxed life at home and sit in a cafe with my father.