Bastian Schweinsteiger on Man Utd under Jose Mourinho and dressing room ban

Bastian Schweinsteiger has opened up on the "great pain" he endured whilst playing under Jose Mourinho at Manchester United.

The 37-year-old was exiled from the squad by Mourinho shortly after the Portuguese took the Old Trafford hot seat and he was even banned from the dressing room, despite his wealth of experience and distinguished career.

Schweinsteiger has revealed that he was first refused access into the Red Devils' first-team inner sanctum on what was his 32nd birthday - August 1, 2016.

"It was very strange on my birthday I came to the dressing room wanted to change but then someone told me I'm not allowed to go in, and I had to change in the dressing room and had to play with the second team," the 2014 World Cup winner said on Manchester United's official podcast.

"I was very hurt because no one was talking to me. Then I was speaking to Mourinho about it and he explained something to me something which I really did not understand and it had to do with the second injury that I got.

"My first injury I got the season before I got treated by the medical department of United and then in an easy training session I got the same injury so I asked Louis van Gaal if I could get treated in Germany because we had the Euros in 2016 coming up and it was always agreed to that.

"So I did that, I was fit, I played the Euros, I was looking forward to coming to United to play with Mourinho who twice actually wanted to buy me with Inter Milan in 2010 and then later on at [Real] Madrid."

Having missed 24 games through injury in his first term at United under Louis van Gaal, Schweinsteiger's hopes of becoming a key player were dashed when Mourinho notably left him out of the Red Devils' Europa League group-stage squad.

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