Wes Brown made 362 appearances for United and earned £50,000-a-week as a player at one stage, but HMRC filed a bankruptcy petition against him last February.
Former Manchester United defender Wes Brown has opened up on his struggles after being declared bankrupt last year.
Brown, 44, has now had his say on where things went wrong for him, admitting he did not have the 'right people' to guide him during his younger years. 'It was a little bit different. It wasn't lots of people you go and speak to and you maybe meet people and do this do that. I wasn't interested in any of that. You said yes and got on with it.
'But it's stuff like when you're kids you don't really understand it anyway, you just assume a lot of people are doing it and it's fine. That's not your life, you're just playing football.'A lot of people have been able to get themselves out of it or they're still involved in sorting it out or whatever, but I just couldn't. There's not much I could do.
It has been suggested that he may have pushed the boat out too much in an attempt to keep up with his fellow United stars on larger salaries, but Brown denies that he over-spent on extravagant items. Brown appeared in a bizarre video on social media where a tailor joked he 'can't afford a suit', and he has insisted he is determined to remain positive despite his financial woes
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