Giorgina Cardoso, the wife of Argentine footballer Angel de Maria, of Paris Saint-Germain, returned to 2014, and talked about her husband Real Madrid leaving for Manchester United.
Cardoso acknowledged that the "maneu" made an offer to the Argentine international "which cannot be rejected."
"Angel was playing with the best team in the world, everything was perfect: weather, atmosphere and food," she added.
"When Angel told me about the English team's offer, I refused at first, and I told him you're going to go alone to England, but he insisted that we go together."
"There was a lot of money and the Spaniards who described us as mercenaries, and frankly we deserved this description."
"If you work for a company and a competing company offers you a double your salary, you will go running," she concluded.
De Maria, 31, joined the "Red Devils" for $ 83 million after the 2014 World Cup, and played one season under the leadership of Dutchman Louis van Gaal before moving to Saint-Germain.