I was frozen out by Jose Mourinho at Manchester United and still don't know the real reason why

Bastian Schweinsteiger has admitted he has no hard feelings over the way he was treated by Jose Mourinho at Manchester United.

The German midfielder joined the Red Devils during the summer of 2015 and made a total of 31 appearances across all competitions in his debut season under Louis van Gaal - who he had previously worked under at Bayern Munich.

Van Gaal was sacked by United days after winning the FA Cup in 2016 and replaced by Jose Mourinho, whose arrival coincided with Schweinsteiger being frozen out of the side for no clear reason.

The 2014 World Cup winner was left out of the squad on the majority of occasions and forced to train away from the first-team before briefly being reintroduced for four matches either side of the New Year, starting only an FA Cup game against Wigan Athletic.

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Schweinsteiger took the opportunity to break free and sign for MLS side Chicago Fire in March 2017. with Mourinho admitting after this departure he regretted how he treated the Bayern Munich icon. "He’s in the category of players that I feel sorry for something that I did to him,” the Portuguese coach said. “I don’t want to speak about him as a player, I don’t want to speak as I buy or not to buy. I want to speak about him as a professional, as a human being.

“The last thing I told him before he left: ‘I was not right with you once, I have to be right with you now.’ So when he was asking me to let him leave I had to say ‘yes’ you can leave because I did it once, I cannot do it twice. So I feel sorry for the first period