Man Utd icon Wes Brown breaks silence on going bankrupt despite £50k-a-week career as he slams ‘wrong people’ around him

FORMER Manchester United defender Wes Brown has opened up about going bankrupt.

The ex-Red Devils defender, 44, was earning £50,000 a week at one stage during his 15-year stay at Old Trafford.

Wes Brown was declared bankrupt last yearGetty

The Manchester United man won five Premier League titlesGetty

He also once had a property in Cheshire up for sale for £4.5million.

Yet the five-time Premier League winner still managed to lose all his money, with the HMRC filing a bankruptcy petition in February 2023, before it was signed off at the High Court two months later.

It came after he split from Real Housewives of Cheshire star Leanne in 2022 following 20 years of marriage.

Now the father-of-three has spoken about how his financial crisis occurred.

He told the Ben Heath podcast: “I think the main thing is when you are making a lot of money, you need the right people, don’t you? And I would say that’s one of the things I didn’t have.

“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.

“It’s a long story and I won’t go into the detail, but it’s stuff that happened a long time ago with certain investments and getting into stuff that as a young kid, a lot of people go into, [but] don’t really understand it.

“It’s what a lot of people are doing and then it came to a head last year, and that’s how it went.

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“It’s happened and I’m just getting on with it but it’s one of those things where you hope people, especially this generation, don’t get involved in.”

Brown’s ex-wife Leanne spoke about their financial situation a few years ago when they were still together.

She said: “Yes we’ve got a lovely life and all this money and I’m not saying the money isn’t great but when you’re in it you’re living in this bubble.

“Although the fans can be amazing they can also be very cruel.

“It must be hard [for footballers] to deal with to be on top one minute and hated the next for a bad kick or missing the goal.

“We are the ones that are left to pick up the pieces and bear the brunt of whatever is left at the end of their careers.”

Brown, who won the Champions League with Man Utd in 1999 and 2008, earned 23 England caps.

He also had spells with Sunderland, Blackburn and Kerala Blasters.