Gary Neville left gobsmacked as ex-Manchester United star Bastian Schweinsteiger makes Jose Mourinho revelation

Gary Neville was left outraged after Bastian Schweinsteiger revealed how his Manchester United career ended.

The former Germany international signed for Manchester United in 2015 after a successful career at Bayern Munich.

The World Cup winner started life at Old Trafford under Louis van Gaal and helped the Red Devils win the FA Cup in 2016.

However, Van Gaal’s subsequent departure as head coach saw Jose Mourinho hand over the Old Trafford seat, which would mean the end of that spell in Manchester.

Schweinsteiger left the club in 2017 to join MLS’s Chicago Fire before hanging up his boots two years later.

The German was a recent guest on Neville’s Stick to Football podcast and lifted the lid on how his final season went under Mourinho, much to Neville’s dismay.

“It was 2016 and I was with the German national team, we went far in the competition (European Championships) reaching the semi-finals, so I came in a little later (at Manchester United) and the team was in the United States for a pre-season tour,” Schweinsteiger told former United captain Neville.

“When I arrived on the first day I trained with Zlatan Ibrahimovic and I thought he was great, a player with vision and incredible to play with.

“The next day, on my birthday, when I walked into Carrington, John Murtough (Man United director of football) was there and told me I wasn’t allowed in the dressing room, the manager said it. 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 hey, I went to the youth locker room and trained with the under-16s years.

Neville looked stunned by the German’s revelation, not understanding why Murtough had informed him of the banishment.

Schweinsteiger then added that Murtough was forced to bring him his boots and training clothes due to his banishment from the first-team dressing room.

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“I asked him who I was training with, and he said there was the under-16 team, so I went to train with the under-16s,” Schweinsteiger said.

“I asked him if I could speak to the manager in the afternoon, so when I came back from training with the under-16s, where I trained so poorly because I didn’t know what was going on. was happening or it was a joke, I then had a meeting with (Mourinho) in the afternoon.

“He explained to me that he didn’t see me happy here at United because when I was injured I did my rehabilitation with German doctors, spending time in Germany.

“I had been training alone for at least three months with a physical trainer,” he added. “I trained before and after the first team.

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“Mourinho never let me train with the first team. I guess they wanted to get rid of me. At that time I was still super happy at United, I loved wearing the shirt, I loved it.

“I thought maybe it’s just a period, I’ll train now and stay fit and maybe one day they’ll change their minds. My dream was to always go back to Old Trafford.”

Neville was outraged by what he heard and called his former employers’ actions “illegal.”

“I was the union rep for the PFA, and you’re not allowed to do that,” Neville said. “You can’t fire someone like that, it’s sort of a constructive dismissal.”

“It’s probably a few years too late, you should have come to me then.” I’m stunned and embarrassed by what I’m hearing because I always think players leave clubs and people argue, but there is a way of doing things and a way of behaving and acting.

Schweinsteiger revealed that Mourinho eventually apologized for demoting him, although too late to repair the broken relationship.