Kyle Walker made AC Milan move ‘to try something different’
Kyle Walker made AC Milan move ‘to try something different’
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Kyle Walker has said joining AC Milan was an opportunity he could not turn down following his move from Manchester City. It was announced last Friday that the 34-year-old England right-back had signed for Milan on loan from City for the rest of the season, with an option for the Serie A outfit to make the switch permanent.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday alongside Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the former Milan striker now working as a senior adviser to the club’s ownership and management, Walker said: “I could have stayed in Manchester, I still had a contract there. But I think it comes down to challenges in life.
“Sometimes you find yourself in a little bit of a situation where you think ‘I need to try something different’, and I’ve spoken to many players, many ex-players, who have not moved abroad to a different league, and they said to me ‘I wish I’d experienced it’.
“If I wasn’t going to a big club, I don’t think I would have done it. I think I would have stayed in the Premier League, at Manchester City, and continued my career there. “But when a club like this comes knocking on the door for you, I think there’s only certain clubs in the world that you can kind of not say no to, and this was the opportunity I wanted.
“When I spoke to Zlatan he made it clear they were excited, they wanted to take me on board and that made me feel secure, that made me feel this is the right decision, that was the gut feeling I had.”. Walker, who City boss Pep Guardiola signed for the club in 2017 and has won a glut of silverware since, including six Premier League titles and the Champions League, made the most recent of his 11 starts this season on December 15.
