I still remember the first time I heard that question.
It was summer 2015, a couple of years after I’d left United. I was at Burton Albion on trial when Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink was manager. Pre-season training was tough. I was overweight. I could do it, but didn’t want to do it and that was the problem. We trained at St George’s Park and I saw all my old England coaches who had coached me during my teens.
They all came over and asked me straight: “What’s happening to you?”
“What do you mean?” I’d never heard it before.