
“It all started off well,” Ángel Di María says of his time at Manchester United, a whisper of wistfulness in his softly spoken tone. The scariest stories often do.
Di María arrived at Old Trafford in the summer of 2014 as the most expensive signing in Premier League history. He had made up his mind on a swift exit barely five months later after a chilling home invasion compounded the ill-will festering between himself and United’s manager at the time, Louis van Gaal.