Former Manchester United winger Tahith Chong has opened up on what he called a 'logical decision' to leave Old Trafford permanently this summer.
The 22-year-old spent last season on loan at Birmingham City and, despite returning to Manchester and featuring in the pre-season for Erik ten Hag, Chong decided the time was right to end his six-year stint at the club. His move back to the Blues was confirmed on deadline day and the Dutchman has now explained why he decided to leave the Theatre of Dreams.
In an interview with Birmingham Live, he explained: "It’s a fun job we have. Everyone here probably started playing football when they were like six, now your hobby has turned into your job, it’s a nice job to have.
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"Of course it [Manchester United] is one of the biggest clubs in the world but eventually you have to look at yourself as well in terms of your career, what you want to achieve. For me I got to the stage I am at an age where I want to play games.
"As a player you develop when you play games, you develop to an extent when you are training every day but at the end of the day your bread and butter is going to be games. If you are not getting that or you play once and then not again for four or five weeks, sometimes that’s not enough.
"For me anyway it was a logical decision if I am not going to get game time here I need to get game time somewhere else. In terms of my career, you have goals and stuff you want to achieve and to do that you have to play games.
"I did the pre-season with United and speaking to my family, United themselves, I felt I wanted to get to a stage where I do that, you want to perform week in week out and keep developing as a player. We felt this was the right thing to do."
United have recently loaned Hannibal Mejbri to Birmingham City for the season. The teenager has yet to start for the Championship club but he has made cameo appearances off the bench.
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