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Bastian Schweinsteiger has revealed how his two-year stint at Manchester United came to a bitter end in a new interview with Gary Neville.

The heavily decorated Germany international arrived at Old Trafford in 2015 after a celebrated tenure at his boyhood side Bayern Munich.

But after initially failing to settle under then-head coach Louis van Gaal, the arrival of Jose Mourinho at the club in the summer of 2016 saw his fortunes take a turn for the worst.

The World Cup winner would later leave the club in 2017 for a final two-year tilt in MLS with Chicago Fire.

Speaking to Neville on the latest episode of the Stick to Football podcast, bought to you by Sky Bet, Schweinsteiger took issue with the nature of how his final season with the club had come to an end, and shed light on the turbulency of his relationship with Mourinho.

'It was 2016 and I was with the German national team, we went far in the competition (the European Championship) reaching the semi-finals, so I stepped in a little later (at Manchester United) and the team were in the US for a pre-season tour,' Schweinsteiger recalled of his start to the 2016-17 season.

'When I arrived on the first day, I trained with Zlatan Ibrahimovic and thought it was great, a player who has the vision and is amazing to play with.

'The next day, on my birthday, when I walked into Carrington, John Murtough was there and said that I wasn't allowed to walk into the dressing room, the coach had said so. No warning, nothing.

'I don't know (why he told me). Someone could have told me there (on my first day of training) or explained it to me in a normal way, but okay, I went to the youth dressing room and trained with the under 16's.'

Schweinsteiger added that he had been 'completely' kicked

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