Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho regrets the way he treated Bastian Schweinsteiger and apologised to the midfielder before his switch to the Chicago Fire.
"He's in the category of players that I feel sorry for something that I did to him," Mourinho 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 with him, he knows that. I am happy that he knows because I told him.
"I will miss a good guy, a good professional, a good influence in training - a very good influence.
"I could not stop him to go even knowing that until the end of the season we have so many matches and we would probably need him for a few matches or a few periods.
"I had to let him go and now publicly wish him and his wife a very happy life in Chicago."
Asked if he regrets the way he treated him, Mourinho said: "Yeah, I do."
"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 with him, he knows that. I am happy that he knows because I told him.
"I will miss a good guy, a good professional, a good influence in training - a very good influence.
"I could not stop him to go even knowing that until the end of the season we have so many matches and we would probably need him for a few matches or a few periods.
"I had to let him go and now publicly wish him and his wife a very happy life in Chicago."
Asked if he regrets the way he treated him, Mourinho said: "Yeah, I do."
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