Nemanja Matic has spoken on his time at Manchester United and explained how two players were ‘always’ late for training.
The 35-year-old spent five years at Old Trafford and left the club in 2022 to join former manager Jose Mourinho at AS Roma. The Serb has now played for Mourinho at three different clubs, including Chelsea where they won the Premier League together.
Now at Rennes, Matic has opened up about his time at united and the differences he experienced from his time at Chelsea in terms of professionalism.
The midfield has revealed that Paul Pogba and Jadon Sancho were amongst a small group of players who were regularly late for training.
“At Chelsea, players acted professionally, they were punctual and were never late for training but at United it happened almost every day,” Matic said in an interview with YuPlanet, as translated by the Metro.
“Among the players who would always be late were Paul Pogba and Jadon Sancho and couple of other players.
“The rest of us who were always on time were angry so we decided to form a kind of internal disciplinary committee with me serving as the president.
“I put a sheet of paper up on the wall where I documented the names of individuals arriving late. During one particular season we collected around £75,000 in fines.
“We had planned to use the money to throw a party in London, but we didn’t due to the Covid outbreak.”
Sancho has been banished from first-team activities after a public fallout with Erik ten Hag, and there has been reports that he was regularly late for training at the season of the season.
On the other hand, Pogba has continued to fall off a cliff after re-joining Juventus. The Frenchman has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for a banned substance in September this year.
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