“I was suddenly out of the squad and I don’t really know why,”
“I just thought I needed to work hard. Then I went to speak to the manager and he said you’ve just got to train harder, so I took that on the chin and thought that’s what I had to do.
"I was trying to do extra and push myself more but, at that time, nothing seemed to work and nothing was explained to me."
“I was ready to go and I wasn’t allowed to because the manager said I was in his plans.
“Then, a few hours before the deadline, I got a call saying the manager had said I could go to West Ham and it was a shock because this hadn’t been in the conversation at all.
“Maybe because of our history he thought I would accept it, but from my perspective, with that history, it felt more personal and harder to understand.