To be fair, when you are really young, you don’t think about the future too much. You just want to play with your friends. When you get older, you start to dream about being there, about being at a top team, so of course it’s a dream to be at a team like Manchester United.
I’m not saying I’ve become institutionalised at Manchester United but my qualities have been at Manchester United.
Adam Sandler, Chip Kelly, Dan Mullen and I all grew up within about a mile of one another. We had a nice community in Manchester. The school systems are great and people care about each other.
Taking on a temporary coaching role at Manchester United is extremely exciting.
There is a certain sentimental vibe in my home town of Manchester, which you would sort of expect.
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 don’t know any Londoners ‘cos I’m from Manchester.
The idea that you could send agricultural products to Tokyo and Osaka and not pay tariffs, and you would have to pay tariffs sending them to Manchester, is quite hard to fathom in the modern world.
Manchester City didn’t pay all that money for me because they saw me once on YouTube. They saw me scoring good goals. And I haven’t forgotten how to score goals.
In Manchester a girl pulled a lock of my hair out once. She hugged me and then tugged my head and just walked away hugging it.
Manchester is a difficult city to adap. It rains a lot, it’s cold.
I had one-and-a-half years of joy in Manchester, despite the city being a lot colder than Madrid!
After one season, I know how well I have to play to keep playing for Manchester United.
Part of being a Manchester United player under Sir Alex Ferguson, perhaps the most important part of being one of United’s attacking players was that when you were in possession, you had to take risks in order to create goal-scoring chances. It was not an option; it was an obligation.
I’m very grateful to Manchester City. They are incredible.
I’ve always lived all over the place, and left Manchester the minute I was old enough to steal a car.
You can’t compare Barcelona and Bayern Munich to Manchester City.
I like to walk down the street in England and just be myself but I could never do that in Spain. In Manchester I can walk down Deansgate and not be troubled.
I’ve scored as many goals for Manchester United in the Premier League as for Chelsea, but in something like 30 games less.
With a club like Manchester United that have history and traditions, I think the manager at the club should respect that.
You only have to look at Manchester’s Royal Exchange or Home to understand the huge energy outside London – there’s enough talent around the country to have a Donmar and National in every city. It just comes down to money.
It would be great to have more Spanish players at Manchester United.
Team GB’s success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester’s velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.
Over the last 15 years or so, Manchester has undergone huge transformation – from a city in decline and on its knees to one that is growing, vibrant and confident.
I hope to work sometime for an absolute top club. It should be no surprise that Manchester United are a dream club for me.
When I received the call saying: ‘Bruno, you have the chance of moving to Manchester’ I called my wife, my brother, my sister, my mother and just started crying. But I was crying through happiness.
I liked Manchester, the club, the restaurants… but let us not forget the discotecas.
It’s difficult to say with words what Manchester United means for me. For anyone. It’s amazing to play for this club, with the history of this club, for the fans, for everything. It’s amazing to be part of this club.
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.
I used to go salmon fishing with the late Jim Slater, the renowned investor, and he would give me tips. He told me to buy shares in football clubs, so I invested in Manchester United before its shares went through the roof.
I want to go back to Manchester and win the City fans back.
Yaya was much better than Sergio Busquets at Barcelona. But he was behind him in the pecking order and he found that hard to accept. I advised him to come to Manchester City while I was still there.
You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.
I love Manchester, but I would like to have a getaway place in Florence.
One day I woke up and Juventus wanted me, another Manchester United and what I know is that there were approaches made. But an agreement was never reached and nothing was close.
You want to win things, you want the best players to come to Manchester United and if we’re playing better and we’re winning things and we’re challenging for things then we’re going to attract the best players.
I have played in Dortmund and Manchester United, no matter what country I go to, I will not be afraid.
People have said, ‘Oh, but you don’t look like you’re from Manchester.’ And I always want to ask, ‘What the hell does someone from Manchester look like?’
I owe Wolfsburg everything. Without them, I would not have had the chance to play for Manchester City or Roma.
I remember taking my demo to every dance person in London. People were like, ‘We don’t know what this is!’ The first people to champion me were a club in Manchester.
When I was growing up, I knew a lot about football because I saw some of my grown-up siblings watching football on TV and they supported Manchester United.
If I ever leave Fiorentina, I would very much like to go to Manchester United because out of the three best teams in Europe – United, Lazio, and Barcelona – Manchester, in my opinion, is the best.
It’s an honour to sign for Manchester United. I am looking forward to following in the footsteps of so many great strikers, bringing my experience and playing my part to help the team compete for the biggest trophies in the game.
I wasn’t able to see my son as much as I wanted. I thought it would be easy living on my own, do what I want and then travel up to Manchester to see my son, but it wasn’t like that.
It’s unbelievable: the fans of Manchester United are one of the best in the world, and I feel the support of them.
Northern soul was huge in Manchester in the ’70s and ’80s; I went to a lot of all-nighters.
I am very proud to join Manchester United. This move is a dream come true for me.
I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.
I don’t regret writing my book at all. I wrote it for the United supporters to give them a proper insight into what it is like inside the club, and what it is like to be a Manchester United player. I think I did that in an honest way.
I would never have left Everton for anybody but an ambitious football club. And I thought Manchester United would have given me that opportunity.
For me, Manchester United is the biggest club. I came here to play with the first team and win trophies.
It was really difficult for me to leave Manchester United. I left for a personal choice.
We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.
I think the greatest goal I’ve ever scored is the one against Liverpool. It was amazing for me, and it really made my name in the Manchester team.
It’s difficult to say no when Manchester City want you and you could play there. That much I have to admit.
Ive got three brothers and a sister; everybody played an instrument. When I was at Manchester United and I broke my leg in 1992, I took up the sax. I play it on The Establishments album.
For me, Manchester United means greatness.
I played for Chelsea for three-and-a-half years and I gave them my best to win against them and show my quality again. I didn’t have anything to prove to them. I wanted to show my new club that I deserve to wear this Manchester United shirt.
I know people say that all the time, but for me, it’s true: Manchester really is my second home.
Being the Manchester United goalkeeper is one of the most difficult jobs in football when you look at the size of the club and the goalkeepers who have been here before. There is a lot of pressure on you, but I have worked hard to cope with that.
I think there’s a lot of things that need fixing at Manchester United apart from David Moyes, but in this business, you also realize the head coach is always going to be the first to go, unfortunately.
The Manchester move was OK. I was still in England and I knew I could go back home.
The pandemic has thrown up so many unique challenges and we are proud of the way Manchester United and its fans from Manchester and around the world have reacted to the enormous pressures during this period.
