I would never have left Everton if it hadn’t been Manchester United.
In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds – they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.
I like everything about Manchester City.
Even before I joined Manchester United, I knew of Wazza as a hard worker.
I liked the generation of Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs, who I admired. I was a little bit jealous of Karel Poborsky who played in Manchester and experienced great matches. I know he still feels that love.
I’ve grown up at Manchester United and been professional all through my career, and I always do extra work.
I spent most of my youth in Manchester, in clubs and football grounds and the Manchester Apollo.
Exeter City’s trip to Old Trafford will be a great day for their fans but that is about it – they won’t get the result they want against Manchester United.
I live in Wales but spend quite a lot of time in London – I stay with my brother. When I get home after being in Manchester or London for a bit, I forget how dark the sky is, and I won’t have seen stars for ages.
I was doing, in my eyes, nothing at Manchester City. You can train all day but it comes down to match situations when you go out on loan to lower league clubs.
Brendan Rodgers is leading Leicester City back into the Champions League – and he is a future Manchester United manager.
I want to win everything we can! But it is my dream to win the Champions League in Manchester City’s shirt.
My mind was always set on joining Manchester United. How can you not go to United?
It is always special to play Manchester United.
If you got to Manchester City, if you don’t work, you’re out of the team.
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.
In Manchester, you don’t have proper tall buildings. Or in Munich.
Everyone who works for Manchester respected me. I tried to help, and I am very grateful to them.
My family were really happy for me that I’m going to such a big club as Manchester United. They definitely were a bit nervous because of my high price, but I’m going to stay focused on proving my worth.
In a team like Manchester City, Arsenal, and other big clubs, it’s quite difficult just to have the same 11 players starting every week.
I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot of energy, so she said, ‘You’ve got to go to this youth theater.’ I joined Manchester Youth Theatre when I was really young, and I just loved putting on and being involved in plays and telling stories.
I love Manchester. I always have, ever since I was a kid, and I go back as much as I can. Manchester’s my spiritual home. I’ve been in London for 22 years now but Manchester’s the only other place, I think, in the country that I could live.
The team I support is Manchester City. And that’s because a friend of mine, who I visited when I was in England, Alexander Zinchenko, plays for them.
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.
Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.
When I was younger I would play in front of crowds as small as 500 in the second division in Belgium, so I know what that’s like. It might be easier in terms of pressure, but believe me, I would always prefer to be at a packed Anfield playing against Manchester United. That’s why you want to become a footballer.
For good or ill, communism transformed the globe, but how many of us realise the crucial role played by a Manchester public library – Chethams, the oldest library in the English-speaking world – in the honing of that ideology?
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.
I thank Manchester City for giving me the opportunity to train these amazing players.
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.
It would be honour for me to keep playing for Manchester United.
Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.
It is one of the best clubs in the world by far. I’m loving Manchester City.
Manchester United isn’t about Wayne Rooney. Manchester United is about the team, the club.
Manchester United are very, very fortunate to have the most wonderful manager in Alex Ferguson.
I feel I let everyone British sport, British boxing, my community, my home town of Manchester, my family my kids, I feel I’ve let everyone down with the troubles I’ve been in.
I enjoy playing at Manchester City.
Playing for Manchester United demands huge sacrifices. It is a club for workers, and we are there to slog our guts out. There is no bling and sequins about the place.
On the first training session Pogba had with Juventus, the players were laughing. We were not laughing for any other reason than we were just in total disbelief that this player with so much obvious ability was able to leave the club the size of Manchester United for free – and I think Juventus are still laughing.
I think the first time I had to play at left-back was at Manchester United in the Europa League.
Being a successful team is maybe not enough. It’s about setting a standard, not just for ourselves but also for the youth that is coming through at Manchester City.
I’m very lucky to go back to my old club, my old home, my old house. To start my new chapter in this second part of my life in the Premier League is going to be something happy. I have very good memories from those four years in Manchester.
Ryan Giggs pretty much won everything there is to win in the game. He made over 900 appearances for the club and always stayed loyal to Manchester United, which is really impressive.
Playing in the Manchester derby definitely helped me.
Manchester United are not just any football club.
Not many people know this but my team in England is Manchester United. Bobby Charlton, Denis Law, George Best, all great players. We created a bond when we played each other and I still speak to Bob from time to time, though I can’t get used to calling him ‘Sir Bobby.’
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.
In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.
I’ve done most of my career with Barca, with the exception of the period I played for Manchester United.
I think any player who joins Manchester United wants to win everything; I want to win every competition that Manchester United compete in.
I was a natural talent, a raw talent. Then I came to Manchester City, and I learned philosophies.
You look at Man United and Liverpool, and they are red – they are much more successful and have a bigger fan base than Chelsea or Manchester City.
I am very proud of my three years there, of having decided to go to Manchester first – at 17, it was the perfect time for me to leave home because it helped make me as a person.
I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My family is from the country like West Moreland and also in Manchester. I’ve been there countless times. As far as cuisine, there’s not really much that comes out of Jamaica that’s on a plate that I don’t like.
Yes, it was my dream to play in the Premier League and fortunately for me my dream is also to play for Manchester United.
Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
I think ‘Manchester’ is really about grieving and trying to get on after something terrible has happened to an adult, and a whole life being destroyed, and then, what are the forces that keep him involved with the people he loves? They love him, and they won’t let him go.
When I played for Stuttgart, I met Manchester United and Chelsea. With United, I immediately think of the duels with Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes and with Chelsea, it was John Terry. Those players are symbols of their clubs and the success they had at that time.
I believe I can be a great player for Manchester United.
London is a very big city, Manchester is calmer. I live near the training ground, so I do things around there in the countryside, but I really like Manchester’s Northern Quarter, where they have nice coffee shops and live music places.
I went a long way to play for Manchester United, so nothing will prevent me from achieving my dream.
