Brandon Williams: former Manchester United defender ready to return to the game

The former Manchester United defender Brandon Williams says he “hurts to watch football” after being without a club since last summer.

Williams was released by the Boyhood Manchester United team at the end of the 2023-24 season after the expiry of his contract and spent this campaign to watch the game from the outside.

The last appearance of the 24 -year -old arrived in December 2023 during a loan spell with Ipswich.

In March, Williams admitted a Non -hazardous driving accusation – He had been captured in August 2023 doing almost 100 miles per hour before crashing the car in Cheshire.

“I go to this mode in which I don’t care,” Williams said Podcast Fozcast by Ben Foster, external.

“I have this switch in which I don’t care what happens. They (family and friends) wanted me to go back to football, but they could see that I had fallen in love.

“It hurts me to look at football now because I just want to be there, I just want to play. I miss being in a team, on the coach, traveling to the games, eating together and doing things.”

Williams arrived through the Manchester United Academy to make his senior debut with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in 2019.

The left back has made 51 appearances, two of which in the Champions League, but fought to tie a regular place and spent time loaning in Norwich and Ipswich.

He appeared under Kieran McKenna in Ipswich, but the former Manchester United coach returned Williams to his mother club after seeing that “something was wrong”.

“I had some problems on the pitch at the end of the year,” said Williams.

“He (McKenna) said ‘Make order and come back as Brandon’.

“When I went back to Manchester, things increased in the field with family problems and friends of friends.”

Williams will be sentenced for his dangerous driving office on May 9th to Chester Crown Court.

He was surprised to drive irregularly and up to 99 miles per hour in an area of ​​70 miles per hour. In March, the field heard that he was seen with a ball in his mouth.

The CPS said that a female passenger was seen filtering at a certain point on his phone, adding that it was clear to the witnesses that Williams’ Audi was out of control before colliding with another car.

Williams was breathed but the test was negative.