I know Alan Thompson from Villa, Paul Telfer from Coventry and Roy Keane from my Manchester United days.
My home is here in Manchester now but my family home is in Brazil. With Belgium I feel like I have three homes.
I just like doing normal things, going to the shops in Manchester, getting a meal with my girlfriend and kids, going to the cinema. I love Las Vegas and there places, but I couldn’t live there.
If Manchester United needs me, I am always ready.
If you play for Manchester United, you have to be strong.
I have always considered myself to be very fortunate. To play for the biggest club in the world, which also happens to be the team I supported as a boy, means I have never had to consider changing away from Manchester United.
I have spent some of the best moments of my career at Manchester City, moments that I will never forget.
I hope at Manchester United I can do my best. I will do my best.
I felt the same when I went to Manchester United, to Madrid, to Leverkusen, and now at West Ham. The only pressure I have is my pressure. That’s it.
I hope we can put Manchester United back where they deserve to be.
My family is happy in Manchester, so I just try to give everything and put all my strength and effort to keep deserving to play for this club.
Manchester United is the biggest club in the world and is clearly determined to get back to the top.
The Manchester music scene was very male dominated.
Neymar could have earned just as much from Manchester City or Chelsea.
Manchester City seems to have unlimited spending restraint and are attempting to have all-star quality at each position – two deep. That will be hard to beat.
I understand there are so many managers who would love to be manager of Manchester United, and I am one of them.
What do you think I am in Manchester for, the weather? I am here to win – only to win, always to win.
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.
Of course many children are dreaming to play for Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Manchester United. I always just wanted to wear the jersey of Partizan, Newcastle, and Serbia.
I’m proud that I’ve even had a career, but ‘proud’ isn’t the first word I’d use. I feel lucky that I moved to Manchester when I was 12 because I don’t think I could have done this in Ireland. And I feel lucky that the government took care of me from the age of 16 to when I signed my first record deal at 19.
The goal, being bold about it, is to stop homelessness in Manchester. I’ve been in this community for 11 years now – my wife Carla is from Manchester, the kids are Mancs, born and bred – so homelessness is not an issue we can shy away from.
There’s something about being in Manchester: everyone is so chilled out, people here accept me for me, no one here judges me, and everyone is treated the same. I love that.
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.
When you’re at Manchester United there are a set of demands, and one is to be a team player, and I don’t think anyone has been on the bench more than me!
It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club. I would like to state that I have great respect for the club, its supporters, and the owner, Sheikh Mansour, who has been nothing other than respectful to me.
That is one thing that is part of Manchester City, which we’ve taken with us from the olden days. We’ll never give up while anything is possible.
It’s amazing knowing that a club like Manchester United is interested in you. It’s a good feeling.
I like it in Manchester. I thought it was going to be much colder, but it is not too bad. And my wife and son are happy here, too.
For me it was massive there was interest from Manchester United. To sign for such a club was important to me in my football career.
We’ve been really fortunate – part of Factory Records, part of the Manchester scene that went worldwide.
In Ukraine as well as in Brazil, Manchester City is now considered one of the best teams in the world, and after I signed, people back home in Brazil congratulated me for signing for one of the top teams in the world.
I remember the ’70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers’ strike, all wrapped up in it… They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches.
My big travel bugbear is Manchester Airport because getting through Terminal Three, as I have to do quite a lot, is a nightmare.
I remember seeing Eric Cantona play for Manchester United. The way he used to control games was special to watch.
The Manchester derby, for our supporters, is the most important game in the season. Always, a few days before the game, the people create that atmosphere that is special to them.
I cannot lie – I wasn’t born a Manchester United fan, but I want everyone to know that a part of my heart will always be a red devil.
I would love to be in Manchester on the roster.
I’m from Manchester, Mass., so it was lobster, lobster and more lobster! Also, lots of fish that we caught in the summers, clam chowder and roast beef sandwiches. But my mom was pretty healthy; we had a lot of chicken and broccoli and rice as well.
All my people are from Ireland. I was born in Manchester, but I am Irish.
If you play for Manchester United, there is always someone out there getting ready to take your jersey. It is up to you to fight and make sure you keep it.
I enjoy every day in Manchester. I am confident we can make a step forward to make people proud of us.
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.
I love this city. Whenever I’m in Manchester, it feels like home.
Manchester is a sensational venue for football but an awful place to live… the winter, the cold and the dark nights. It’s very hard for a young Brazilian.
I arrived when I was a kid; I was just 17. I would have liked to have played more, but I learned a lot in Manchester.
They wanted to play me central midfield when I was at Aston Villa, so that’s why we left. Things were going good at Coventry, but then scouts from Manchester United and different clubs around England were watching me, and I don’t think Coventry liked that.
When the big clubs, and Manchester United is one of the biggest clubs in the world, is interested in you, it’s an honour and it’s a kind of an acceptance of what you play – so it’s a good thing.
We know Manchester United’s history and the fact the club is known for winning trophies.
I was at a local club, Penketh United, and Mike Glennie, a Manchester United scout, came to watch me. He spoke to my grandad and offered me trials, but there was also interest from Liverpool, and I had to pick – I was only young, but obviously my heart was with United at the time.
You will never see United manager Sir Alex Ferguson in the media taking problems he has or the squad has or the club has into the open. Never, ever. But you do see that at Manchester City.
Not many people become manager of Manchester United. Sir Alex had it for a long, long time, then a few have come along since to try to emulate him and make them the champions again.
I love Manchester. It’s a super-cool city and its famous rain is part of the charm.
Manchester United is like the American team in the Premier League, and everyone knows the weight of it back home. It is so exciting for me to wear a badge that is well known.
It is obviously difficult in Manchester living in a hotel.
I came to Turin above all for my family, because at Manchester, they had inserted a clause in our agreement which changed the situation considerably. It really annoyed me.
When one day I leave Manchester United I don’t want to think, ‘I should have analysed the opponent more, I should have worked harder.’
I don’t say that there is a lot of difference between Fred from Shakhtar and Manchester, we are adapting. Here at United, I score a little more, I improved a lot. I think that is the main difference.
We’ve got to rediscover the Manchester United way of playing, and I don’t think many teams enjoy their nights at Old Trafford when we’re on song.
I respect Manchester United, but I have respect to Dortmund as well.
I hope to stay many years in Manchester United and make history in this club. When I was at Porto and Atletico Madrid, I always wanted to improve to achieve my dream of playing in a team like this.
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.
Manchester United have always stood up again and bounced back; it’s just in the DNA.
During my first season at Manchester, the team was not performing, and I was the scapegoat.
You’ll never find a Manchester band slagging off another Manchester band, but within each Manchester band, people will rip each other apart: Mondays, Smiths, New Order, Roses, Oasis.
