Tom Thorpe has sent a heartfelt goodbye message to Manchester United fans having been released by the club.
Louis van Gaal decided not to offer Thorpe a new contract and the 22-year-old ends a six-year affiliation with Man United having joined in 2009.
In his message to fans, Thorpe makes it abundantly clear what his primary career goal was and still is: to play for United. Yet, after captaining the 2011 FA Youth Cup winning team, as well as the U21s to three titles in the last four years, Thorpe was never given a proper opportunity with the first-team.
Instead, Paddy McNair and Tyler Blackett were given chances ahead of him which is something I won’t ever be able to get my head around because, at the time, Thorpe was far more deserving of those opportunities:
Good luck in your career, Tom. You should have been given a better platform to progress at United but unfortunately it didn’t work out. Hopefully you can find more success elsewhere.
