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Former Manchester United defender Gerard Pique, who left United to return to Barcelona, has spoken out to the Spanish press on the poor diet and discipline of his former English team mates:

‘There were some incredible things happening at United,”

“It [the diet at Old Trafford] was outrageous. Everyone ate whatever they wanted to eat and when you think about the typical English diet, you can imagine what I am talking about.

“The players were allowed to eat what they wanted and it must be remembered that the English diet is just like people say.

“Every two weeks we were checked out on a machine that measured the amount of body fat. You would be amazed at how many top players practically broke the machine because their diet was based on beer and burgers.”

Pique also described how he was unable to understand manager Sir Alex Ferguson:

“I arrived not being able to speak English and I got lost a little bit in the team-talks. The gaffer, as Ferguson is known in Manchester, spoke a very Scottish kind of English that might as well have been Chinese as far as I was concerned. But I wasn’t the worst - there are players in the current squad who still don’t understand him.”

Source:Football365