Bayer Leverkusen goalkeeper Matej Kovar has admitted Manchester United are ‘nonetheless in his coronary heart’ after leaving the membership in 2023.
Kovar joined Man Utd again in 2018 as a 17-year-old however did not get previous the Underneath-21 set-up throughout his 5 years on the membership, not making a single look for the primary crew. Following mortgage spells at Swindon City, Burton Albion and Sparta Prague, the Czech goalkeeper made a everlasting transfer to Bundesliga outfit Bayer Leverkusen.
Whereas Kovar failed to interrupt into the first-team, the Purple Devils ensured {that a} first refusal clause was connected to the cope with Leverkusen.
Since finishing a £7.7m transfer to Leverkusen and signing a four-year deal on the Bay Enviornment, Kovar has been utilised sporadically by Xabi Alonso as a result of implausible type of veteran goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky.
Kovar has featured simply as soon as within the Bundesliga whereas Leverkusen have stormed to an eight-point lead atop of the desk, however he has been a daily in cup competitions, making ten appearances throughout the DFB-Pokal and UEFA Europa League to this point this season.
Chatting with Sport whereas on worldwide responsibility with Czechia, Kovar was requested a few potential return to Manchester United sooner or later.
He stated: “No, I’ve not. It is vital for me to begin enjoying repeatedly and set up a place in Leverkusen. Then, we are going to see what occurs sooner or later.
“After all, they’re [United] nonetheless my coronary heart. I spent a few years on the membership. I will have a look once I get an opportunity. United are going via a tough season.
“The outcomes are like a merry-go-round. Nevertheless it’s an enormous and nice membership, I hope it will get again to the highest. All of us agreed that going to Leverkusen made sense.
“It was a shift for me. And if somebody had informed me earlier than the season that I might mess around 15 video games for Leverkusen, top-of-the-line groups in Europe, I might have taken all ten. I imagine that I made the proper transfer and that it is going to be confirmed sooner or later.”
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