Season › 2013-14 › News Baines wanted to leave, says Stubbs Sam Wallace, The Independent , 20 September, 0comments | Jump to most recent Alan Stubbs has admitted that Leighton Baines wanted to leave the club for Manchester United this summer but was refused a transfer in the last weeks of the window. The Independent claim that "Baines had a series of meetings with Roberto Martinez and the chairman Bill Kenwright asking for them to agree a deal with United," after David Moyes had come in with a joint bid for him and Marouane Fellaini. United would later split their offers in an attempt to force Kenwright's hand but are reported to have had a final £15m bid for the 28 year-old rejected on transfer deadline day. Speaking at a Football Writers' Association event at the Museum of Liverpool last week, Stubbs, now the club's Under-21s manager, said: "The way the transfer deadline goes, everyone looks at it and it got to a stage where we knew the Gareth Bale thing was going to happen. That was the big one, underlying from that there wasn't really an awful lot going on. "Probably come seven o'clock on the night [2 September] at Everton, the word from the training ground was that no-one was going to go. Fellaini was staying. Bainesy was never really an option, the club had dug its heels in. Bainesy had obviously said he'd like to go. "And then come nine o'clock suddenly we started to get linked with [Romelu] Lukaku and then the Fellaini thing was starting with negotiations with United. By the time it had finished we'd bought three in and they are great additions to the squad." Quotes or other material sourced from The Independent About these ads