Mats Hummels has ruled out joining Manchester United after the Borussia Dortmund defender confirmed his desire to stay with the German giants.
Hummels – who won the World Cup with his nation Germany earlier this year – was linked with a summer move to the Old Trafford outfit despite Dortmund insisting that the 25-year-old was not for sale.
With the Bundesliga club keeping onto the player, Hummels has now come out and revealed that he was never tempted to move to United.
‘It’s nice to hear that big clubs like that are interested in you,’ he told Bundesliga Magazin International.
‘I take that as a compliment but it doesn’t influence me in any way, otherwise. We earn enough here in Dortmund.
‘There will always be someone who can pay more than BVB but Dortmund have made a lot of progress during my time here. In any case I believe it’s enough for me.
‘If one day I start thinking about playing abroad, money won’t be the reason. I don’t even think about that at the moment. We still have so much further to go here.’
Hummels went on to express his desire to emulate the careers of Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard and Paolo Maldini by staying with Dortmund for the remainder of his playing days.
‘There are some [who stay at one club for their whole careers], and they are all really great players. Maldini of Milan, for example, or Gerrard. I would have been so happy for him if he had won the championship with Liverpool,’ he said.
‘[Lionel] Messi always plays for Barcelona. Bastian Schweinsteiger and Thomas Müller, too, will perhaps play in Munich for ever.’
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