‘I signed for Man Utd and I had no one up there apart from my PlayStation’

Aaron Wan-Bissaka has opened up connected the loneliness helium endured during the aboriginal stages of his Manchester United career, revealing helium lone had his PlayStation for company.

The versatile defender spent 5 years astatine Old Trafford an made 130 Premier League appearances nether a succession of antithetic managers.

Wan-Bissaka looked acceptable for a agelong and palmy England vocation erstwhile helium joined United from Crystal Palace successful the summertime of 2019 for a interest of £50 million.

Instead, injuries and a deficiency of stableness astatine the Theatre of Dreams contributed to the full-back lone displaying his existent imaginable successful fits and starts.

Wan-Bissaka confessed helium recovered the going particularly pugnacious during the aboriginal stages of his United vocation having moved to Manchester from London.

He told The Evening Standard: ‘It was difficult. Very difficult. I went [to Manchester] connected my ain and it was my archetypal clip moving distant from home. I had nary 1 up there, isolated from my PlayStation.’

He added: ‘Manchester’s smaller, everyone’s alert of everything that’s happening. You person to beryllium mentally beardown to debar the antagonistic worldly it comes with.’

Now 26 and successful the premier years of his career, Wan-Bissaka has embarked connected a caller situation astatine West Ham who person struggled truthful acold this word nether caller manager Julen Lopetegui contempt what looked like, connected paper, an awesome summertime transportation window.

‘It got tiring!;’ helium said erstwhile asked astir his determination to articulation the Hammers and permission United.

‘It wasn’t the close thought for maine to beryllium doing that. I had to effort and settee up there, and I ended up doing that.’

Asked if helium joined United excessively soon successful his career, helium added: ‘I’ve thought astir that.

‘It could person gone immoderate way. I could person told myself it was excessively aboriginal but the different broadside of maine was asking, ‘Is this accidental going to travel again?’

‘So, I thought, fto maine conscionable instrumentality it. If it doesn’t enactment out, it doesn’t enactment out. At slightest I’d person tried and fixed it my all. That was my mentality.’

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