“I don’t think I will ever be happy with how I was treated between 2016 and 2019. I was in the best form of my career but was told I would not be a starter no matter how well or how hard Iworked at training or how many goals I score. Listening to people label me as too old and that I was better as a super sub was difficult since I knew this was not the case.”

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