A deal was close to being concluded but then he was sacked that summer. It was hard for me to admit I needed help and to admit that I was struggling without football. “When you have a year left as a football player, you have to start planning and thinking about what’s going to happen at the end of the season. ho and Manchester United train in a car park8Jose Mourinho stands in the car park watching his chargesGoogle8The Daventry Court Hotel where Jose Mourinho put his United players through their pacesThey are valued at £2. Some players win a trophy and think that they are on top of the world. Sylvian Wiltord runs after Lundekvam in 2000The Norwegian ace, now 43, said: My wife left me along with our two little girls and I was left alone in a big house so I told myself I was going to drink myself to death. I booked a one-way ticket to Rio and had no intentions of coming back. 8Mourinho is working with Juan Mata after axing him at ChelseaThe threat was very serious and very real. Yet unlike some of Citys other superstars such as David Silva and Sergio Aguero, Toure always seemed to determined to rock the boat. There was a collective agreement to show what United are about at Sixfields, to remind the country that those red shirts still mean something special.