Manchester United outcast Bastian Schweinsteiger celebrates his return to first-team training with stunning wife Ana Ivanovic
United boss Jose Mourinho recalled the banished midfielder to training today despite previously confirming the German would never play for the club again
MANCHESTER UNITED outcast Bastian Schweinsteiger celebrated Jose Mourinho reintroducing him to the first team fold with a romantic lunch with his glamorous wife Ana Ivanovic.
The loved-up couple, who tied the knot in a double ceremony in Venice this summer, stepped out in Hale, Cheshire this afternoon after the midfielder had trained with the likes of Wayne Rooney and Marcus Rashford for the first time since Mourinho froze the German out of his squad in August.
The German was omitted from the 25-man Europa League squad and the club’s team photograph in recent weeks but it appears Mourinho has made a desperate U-turn over the midfielder’s future at the club.
Schweinsteiger, 32, and tennis star Ivanovic, 28, who seemed to have settled quickly in the North West, are regularly spotted in the Cheshire village.
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Slumping former world number one Ivanovic ended her 2016 season at the US Open after struggling with a wrist injury throughout the campaign and has been putting her troubles behind her with holidays, shopping sprees and workouts.
Schweinsteiger, who has won eight Bundesliga titles with Bayern Munich and helped Germany to the 2014 World Cup has been dating the Serbian beauty since 2014.
During his final season at Munich it was revealed he had personalised his football boots in honour of Ivanovic and embroidered the word 'dušo' - Serbian for 'darling' - alongside the nation's flag.
The Old Trafford flop married his tennis-playing partner in a civil ceremony followed by a religious blessing this summer and they booked out the same Aman hotel used by Hollywood superstar George Clooney for his nuptials in 2014.