'I went from Siberia to the frying pan in the space of five days' - Cats star spills beans on ex boss
| Published date | 22 December 2020 |
| Date | 22 December 2020 |
| Publication title | Evening Chronicle |
Now after speaking to the club's official #SaFCunfiltered podcast, the 34-year-old has spoken about how "difficult" it was for him, but he claims he knew he would outlast Parkinson.
McGeady said: "It was really, really difficult to be honest with you.
"I've never had that situation in my career until a year ago. It was really difficult because I wasn't involved at all, I was binned of f with the under-23s with no hope of coming back.
"I went out on loan in January because I thought I can't sit about here and just train and play out the season.
day what can chain my took "To be fair the loan was quite good. It was a good group of lads at Charlton and I liked the manager. It was good because I was back playing again and in the Championship so it was good in that point of view but it was such a quick turn of events.
"I went from playing to having to go out on loan and I was living in London on my own, then moving back during lockdown.
"I was living down there on my own and having to travel back up on days of f so it wasn't ideal. In the summer I was like, I'm not doing that again unless it suits me and something is right for me.
"To be honest I kind of thought I would outlast Parkinson anyway so that's why I did hang about."
Sunderland were in the midst of a terrible run last December when news broke that McGeady had been made to train with the under-23s. It followed a league defeat at Gillingham where the Irish international was an unused sub.
It came as a shock to many, with McGeady, at that time, Sunderland's second top scorer in the campaign and a player with the ability to turn games in an instant.
McGeady said: "I still to this day don't know what happened. I can give you the chain of events of how my ostracising took place - the week leading up to the Gillingham game was my last ever involvement in a game.
"I never had a fallout with Parkinson, I never had an argument or a big fight... and I think if you ask any of the players involved, the day that he banished me from the training ground I went into say to the lads I'm done.
Everyone was like what are you talking about? I said I'm done, he's just binned me of. f. They were like 'shut up.'
"I was like, no I'm serious and they were like 'what are you...
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