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"I Regretted It Very Quickly" - Former Manchester United Midfielder Opens Up On Asking To Quit The Club

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Updated 15:36 21 Feb 2022 GMTPublished 15:37 21 Feb 2022 GMT

"I Regretted It Very Quickly" - Former Manchester United Midfielder Opens Up On Asking To Quit The Club

"I tell him that indeed, with what has happened in the last three months, I am not in it."

Daniel Marland

Daniel Marland

Former Manchester United midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin regrets asking to leave the club in 2017 and believes it was a poor decision.

Schneiderlin arrived at Old Trafford in 2015 after impressing at Southampton, but he never nailed down a spot in the first team.

He'd win the FA Cup in his debut campaign under Louis van Gaal before he was replaced by Jose Mourinho.

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The France international slipped further down the pecking order under Mourinho and asked to join Everton the following January - something he doesn't look back on fondly.

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"I learned a lot from my departure from Manchester United. I had played 40 matches the previous season with Manchester," he told L'Equipe per Sport Witness.

"When I come back from the Euros, I take ten days off and I play very little for three, four months.

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"Then, I have Ronald Koeman and Everton who are pushing hard to get me, every day, from October.

"I will remember it all my life: I should have played against Liverpool and the coach [Mourinho] comes to see me.

"He tells me he doesn't feel me inside the group.

"I tell him that indeed, with what has happened in the last three months, I am not in it and I want to go to Everton. I regretted it very quickly."

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Mourinho also let Bastian Schweinsteiger leave that season in an attempted clear out.

Schneiderlin got his move to Goodison Park and became a maligned figure among fans, who feel he didn't fully fit their system.

When he left, it allowed Ander Herrera more opportunities in the United first-team and he became a regular under Mourinho and his successor, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

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Herrera left United for Paris Saint-Germain in 2019 and he still plays for the French giants to this day.

Schneiderlin, who is now at Ligue 1 side Nice, thinks he should've stuck it out in Manchester as Herrera did after an underwhelming debut campaign.

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He continued: "Even if it went very well at Everton, when you play for Manchester United, when you're at a club like that, it's not for a moment of doubt that you have to question everything.

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"Look at Ander Herrera: the first year I arrived, he was on the bench; he persevered, and today he is at PSG."

Nice are currently third in Ligue 1 and are in a good position to qualify for next season's Champions League.

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Topics: Manchester United, Premier League

Daniel Marland
Daniel Marland

Daniel is a social editor for SPORTbible after moving from the writing team. Nearly scored past Stormzy at Old Trafford once.

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