Manchester United defender Aaron Wan-Bissaka has opened up about the challenges of playing for the club.

The England right-back felt that his time at United may have been coming to an end a year ago.

However, he won his place back in the team last season, impressing coach Erik ten Hag.

Now in line for a new deal, Wan-Bissaka said the following about his situation, per The Mail: “It was a hard time and the only thing you can do during a hard time is keep working.

“I got my head down, gaining that hunger to fight for my position and wanting to play, wanting to impress the manager and help the team.

“It's quite hard to motivate yourself to train hard because you'd be telling yourself, “what am I training for when I'm not going to be playing?" But I just had the mindset, “I'll train for myself, just to get the best out of myself".

“It can go both ways. You can just sit there and complain about it and not care, or you can actually try. I thought the best way was for me to try.

“It's obviously never good. But I just had to deal with it. I had support around me, my family, telling me every day, 'Just keep working hard, have faith, your time will come'. So that helped me get through each day.

“I always have that faith in myself to get myself out of situations like that. I had my head screwed on and I was ready to do what it takes.

“Probably after January, I felt it I was in the right direction. I felt good about myself. I was happy. I just wanted to keep improving."