Manchester United name Premier League squad and one man is in from the cold

Schweinsteiger's redemption?

Jose Mourinho has named his final Premier League squad for the season ahead and he's put a certain German on the list. Each club were due to submit their 25-man panels on September 1 and anyone not selected would be ineligible for the forthcoming campaign but, despite being banished to train with the reserves thus far under the new manager, Bastian Schweinsteiger has been handed an olive branch. There's only so much class one man can portray in the face of adversity. When van Gaal left, Schweiny ushered in the Jose era with class.

"I think Louis van Gaal and I have a very special relationship," he said. "If Mourinho does take over at United, I think all of the players want to train under him so it’s going to be quite a special season."

Even when he was nowhere to be seen, he was classy enough to wish the team luck. https://twitter.com/BSchweinsteiger/status/764766122495373312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Then he released a statement... and it was classy. https://twitter.com/BSchweinsteiger/status/768405415956717568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw That classy classiness has worked for him though. Schweinsteiger has maintained his dignity and he has, at the very least, maintained his place in United's first-team squad. Each Premier League team were instructed to name a 25-man squad of which eight places are reserved for homegrown players aged over 21, leaving 17 spots for non-homegrown players. The bad news for the former German captain is that United only bothered naming 24 in that official list because they have so many young players like Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford, and Luke Shaw that fall under the under-21 category. It would've been pretty unnecessary to leave him out. Manchester United official 25-man squad From the Premier League (*=Home grown) Bailly, Eric Bertrand Blind, Daley *Carrick, Michael Darmian, Matteo De Gea Quintana, David Depay, Memphis El-Fitouri, Sadik Fellaini-Bakkioui, Marouane Herrera Aguera, Ander Ibrahimovic, Zlatan *Johnstone, Samuel Luke *Jones, Philip Anthony *Lingard, Jesse Ellis Mata Garcia, Juan Manuel Mkhitaryan, Henrikh *Pogba, Paul Labile Rojo, Faustino Marcos Alberto Romero, Sergio German *Rooney, Wayne Mark *Schneiderlin, Morgan Schweinsteiger, Bastian *Smalling, Christopher Valencia Mosquera, Luis Antonio *Young, Ashley Simon Under-21 players (Contract and Scholars) Barlow, Aidan Will Barrett, Jake George Bohui, Joshua Raymond Boonen, Indy Zeb Pepe Borthwick-Jackson, Cameron Jake Burkart, Nishan Connell Castro Pereira, Joel Dinis Chong, Tahith Dearnley, Zachary Harry Diedrick-Roberts, Kayne Leevi Doughty, Joshua Anders Dunne, Max Edward Ercolani, Luca Fojticek, Alex Fosu-Mensah, Evans Timothy Fosu Gomes, Adilson Angel Abreu de Almeida Goss, Sean Richard Gribbin, Callum Anthony Hamilton, Ethan Billy Harrop, Joshua Andrew Henderson, Dean Bradley Hoelgebaum Pereira, Andreas Hugo Januzaj, Adnan Johnstone, Max Oliver Kehinde, Tosin Samuel Kenyon, Jake Barry Makela, Faustin Martial, Anthony Joran McIntosh-Buffonge, Darren Raekwon Mctominay, Scott Mitchell, Demetri Kareem Moutha-Sebtaoui, Ilias O'Connor, Lee Patrick O'Hara, Kieran Michael Olosunde, Matthew Olawale Poole, Regan Leslie Rashford, Marcus Redmond, Devonte Vincent Riley, Joe Scott, Charlie Thomas Shaw, Luke Paul Hoare Spratt, Harry Tanner, George Tuanzebe, Axel Warren, Tyrell Nathaniel Whelan, Callum Tyler Williams, Ro-Shaun Oman Willock, Matthew Wilson, James Antony The even worse news again is that the squad can be changed in January. Huge All-Ireland final GAA Hour features an interview with Kilkenny manager Brian Cody. Subscribe here on iTunes.