James McClean: "Both Martin O'Neill and the manager have had a word in the past. I feel a bit bad now because I haven't been the easiest.
"But I take that on board and I think I have matured a bit in the last few months, and I will continue to hopefully do that. "It was a bit of a whirlwind first six months, amazing, top of the world, and then a lot of things happened in between then. "But it will help me as a person. I will learn from all that and it will put me in good stead for the future. "It was all new to me - I was still the same lad as I was from my time at Derry and that kind of went against me. "I want to continue to just be me, and what comes with that comes with that. But I have learnt to not say too much. "It's been an indifferent season at club level for me. Hopefully I am going to knock that behind me now and push on here with the Ireland squad. "It's been difficult for a lot of reasons which have already been well-publicised. But that's in the past now and I want to go back sharper, better and stronger for next season and hopefully push on to where I was. "The other day gave me a bit of confidence with the two assists, so hopefully if I am called upon again I will do a job."Source: Sunderland-Mad
Source: FOOTYMAD
