I knew the pressure would be huge. I knew Manchester United was a massive club and a big challenge for me. Hopefully I’m proving to people that I can rise to the challenge.
Manchester United are not just any football club.
Even before I joined Manchester United, I knew of Wazza as a hard worker.
I used to be so into soccer. I would wear soccer team hoodies, another soccer team’s pants, and Manchester United earrings. And I had, like, five of everything, so I would just wear the same outfit all the time!
At this club the fans have seen some incredible players over the years and you must always be aware of what a privilege it is to play for Manchester United.
I was a Manchester United fan.
Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world.
Manchester United and Liverpool have been bought with huge leverage, and we’ve got Roman Abramovich at Chelsea who can turn his loans into shares. It is really important for the Premier League to ask itself: if a club is being bought on such a mountain of debt, isn’t that a possible recipe for disaster for the future?
I’m very pleased to play for Manchester United. I want to hep the team get into the Champions League.
It’s amazing knowing that a club like Manchester United is interested in you. It’s a good feeling.
Ronaldo has nothing to prove to anyone, he has proved his talent by being the top scorer in England. He has proved it by winning the Premier League, by winning the Champions League, with Manchester United.
I hope to work sometime for an absolute top club. It should be no surprise that Manchester United are a dream club for me.
I always thought I’d be playing; now I watch Manchester United every weekend on Sky Sports and they’re using ‘Found What I’ve Been Looking For’ as a theme song – and I’m sitting at a pub and it comes on and I’m like, ‘Oh yeah, mad.’
I can tell you as a Manchester United player how big this club is and how you feel the repercussions of everything you do. It happens to everyone. It happened to me when I came.
Cristiano Ronaldo has not changed since we were both at Manchester United.
I had a fantastic career at Manchester United.
Manchester United is a huge club. When I was young, it was a name I used to hear and it was a name I used to see on computer games and I used to play with the team.
It will not be the same Manchester United without Wayne Rooney. He has to stay there until he dies.
In England, there are big games but nothing like the Clasico. Manchester United versus Liverpool is a really great match, probably the best over there. But Barcelona-Madrid is different to any other game in the world.
If I was 19, 20, 18, and I had the chance to play with first-team players of Manchester United, I will definitely try to take my chance.
At Manchester United, we play to win. That’s my first mentality when I get onto the pitch. Then everything else comes with it.
With Manchester United I want to win. I therefore do not pay attention to what happens in other clubs, I’m totally focused on Manchester United.
We want to win everything. That is the Manchester United way.
If I ran the show at Manchester United, I would be making a big effort to keep Paul Pogba.
A lot of people know Sir Alex Ferguson was the heart of Manchester United. He is a legend.
We have previously engaged with the Manchester United Supporters’ Trust on fan share ownership and we want to continue and accelerate those discussions, together with provisions to enhance associated fan consultation.
I’d been coaching since the end of my playing career, first with England’s Under 21s, then Manchester United, and finally, in Spain with Valencia.
If you want to measure yourself with Barcelona, Chelsea and Manchester United, you, as Bayern Munich, need a philosophy. That must be the aim of the club.
The English clubs Arsenal and Manchester United focus on continuity with the same coaches for years.
I watched a lot of games in the Theatre of Dreams and of Manchester United on television.
I always show great respect for everyone, including Manchester United.
I’d played some very good games, at Manchester United, at Tottenham Hotspur, but they’d lacked a goal. There’ve been times when I could have scored myself, but I’ve played a pass to a team-mate instead.
Nobody needs to talk about the history of Manchester United because everybody knows it.
I’ve grafted to get here, so Manchester United is where I want to stay.
If we should have any regrets as Manchester United, that is that we only gave David Moyes seven months. I think we should have given him more time, accepted that results weren’t going to be the way we hoped they would be and that playing would be a little bit different. I believe he would have grown into that role.
I went a long way to play in Manchester United, so nothing will prevent me from achieving my dream.
It’s hard for an up and coming player who has the eyes of Manchester United on them to take that opportunity and then sort of not given the opportunity to break through because of the quality already there.
When you have played for Manchester United, it is difficult to go elsewhere.
I felt bad for Newcastle when they lost their 2005 FA Cup semi-final to Manchester United. They had loaned me out to Celtic, but I still had a lot of affection for them.
I knew that PSV had given me my chance, but Manchester United is obviously a great club.
I have felt part of this club when I have travelled all around the world and been recognised as a Manchester United player. And when you’re a Manchester United player you will forever be a Manchester United player.
At a club like Manchester United, we have to win something.
It’s an honour for any player that a club of the prestige of Manchester United should follow them, and that, in itself, is enormous praise.
For me, Manchester United means greatness.
If you want to stay at Manchester United and win trophies and be successful, then you have to work through the reserve games, and that is what I am doing.
My mind was always set on joining Manchester United. How can you not go to United?
Manchester United isn’t about Wayne Rooney. Manchester United is about the team, the club.
If I would have had the absolute will, I would have been a starting XI player at Barcelona or would have played 10 years for Real Madrid or Manchester United.
I was very close to joining Manchester United.
I want to aspire to titles. Liverpool will always be a big club, but we are not at the level of Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, or Arsenal.
We’re always able to look at a position and have our view in terms of the list of targets that would suit Manchester United and augment our team.
This is Leicester: it is not like Manchester City or Manchester United. They have an obligation to win things. We don’t have an obligation; it is just a dream.
Both Chelsea and Manchester United will be challenging for the Premiership title next season.
It makes me very proud that a club like Manchester United have wanted me to be here as long as I have been.
When I arrived at Manchester United, the club hadn’t won the league for 26 years, and then in my first year, they won the championship.
Winning the FA Cup was a very big moment. You play for Manchester United to win trophies and play in games like that, so it was a great moment for me.
Even when I went to Aston Villa, it was very important that I was not in competition with Manchester United.
Regardless of whether it is playing for your school team or playing for Manchester United, winning is great.
The Premier League is the best league in the world and Manchester United is the perfect place for me to continue to develop as a player.
A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United.
My early ambitions were the same as they are now – to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad.
I was very young at Manchester United, and I feel that I was just starting to find my feet when I was sold and Rooney was brought in.
When Jose Mourinho went to Real Madrid many moons ago, he no question was the man, but he turned them into a defensive side. He went to Chelsea, won the league and all of a sudden he’s on the up again. The following year, complete and utter dismay and then he turned Manchester United into a side that finished sixth.
Manchester United is the world’s best club. There is no reason to move to any other team.
My best memory was probably scoring a penalty against Manchester United.
I hope at Manchester United I can do my best. I will do my best.
Manchester United is a world-famous club, and yet if you say, ‘Manchester United,’ then immediately you think of Sir Alex Ferguson. To have achieved so much and have so much importance at such a big club is extremely rare.
I didn’t see myself playing regularly at right-back for Manchester United or making my England debut in that position.
The biggest clubs in Europe, whether they be Barcelona, Madrid, Manchester United, or Chelsea, always want to win, whatever they are participating in.
