"To maintain the success at any football club is not a certainty, i.e. I always believe a four-year cycle is probably the most you can achieve in terms of success. Very few teams can create more than that four-year cycle. Last season we almost did it, we were one point short of winning the league for a record fourth time.

"We realised that to maintain that high consistency of being there challenging we had to inject youth into the club and we’ve been doing it for the last three or four years. We realised some years ago that Giggs, Scholes and Neville were never going to last forever and our policy is therefore to develop players within the club. We had a player that once said to me Rooney and Ronaldo weren’t good enough. Can you believe that? He actually said they weren’t good enough and he wasn’t prepared to wait until they were. That’s what happens, that’s the problem with potential – people don’t identify potential, they’re very poor at it. I’ve identified it all my life within young people – I know potential, I know how it can be developed and I know how to have faith in it - young people surprise you when you give them an opportunity. And that’s what this club is about. So when you see Manchester United at the moment with all these young players, you can’t see Manchester United three years ahead because you’re not thinking about that.

"We will invest in players when the time is ready. This summer wasn’t the right time as far as I was concerned; there was no value for me. There was one player who we would have liked to have got but he chose another club. I don’t think he ever wanted to come to England anyway. Some players don’t want to leave their country, it’s a fact of life, some players are happy in their own country. Some players are happy to leave and Manchester United is always a big attraction for any player. If they don’t want to leave their country then we forget about it.

"In terms of the future of Manchester United there are a lot of things in my favour – history, the respect we have from people – if I told you how many agents phone my secretary every week about players who would love to play for us - and I don’t just mean run of the mill players, I’m talking about players at almost every club in the world - it would amaze you. It’s because this club still has that fantastic romance and respect from everyone.

"Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it’s a better cow than the one you’ve got in your own field. It’s a fact. But it never really works out that way. It’s probably the same cow which is only as good as your own cow. We have to deal with that – some players like to think that it’s a better world somewhere else, it never really works like that.

"As I said, three Premier League titles in a row is fantastic and we were within one point of a record fourth. It didn’t happen for us and we didn’t like that and we want to do something about it. We’ll be okay – I’ve got every confidence in that. We have a structure at the club which is good, we have the right staff, the right manager, the right chief executive, he’s a brilliant man. There’s nothing wrong with Manchester United, not a thing wrong with it. So we’ll carry on."


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Ozil left Germany for Spain la...It's clearly Villa

Yes we do, it's Nani

It's almost the same as CR when he first joined the club...His first appearance from the bench where he won a penalty was a dive

'If one player does not trust the other players, that player should not play. I am not like that as I trust everyone and I know we can win.'

Evra <3

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/...o=feeds-newsxml

Yup, Evra hasn't been his usual self for quite a while now, but last night I did see the old Evra..Storming down the left flank to support park and defended well

wouldnt want Forlan back in OT though, he's too old now, has only a couple of season left in his tank...I would rate Pato, Aguero and Suarez...All proven strikers and still can improve since they are young...

But the most important area to improve is surely a midfield playmaker

Sneijder - We had genuine interest, but I think SAF was confident with Anderson/Carrick at that time.

Oezil - Always wanted to go to Real/Barcelona

VdV - Was only available for 8 million pounds on the last day of the transfer market, by that time we've already done buying players

Bebe - SAF took a risk this time, so it's still too early to say whether his gamble pays off or not

When the time comes, they will be sold while the ones SAF wants will stay

hall of betrayal

not harsh at all compared to what he did to SAF and the club

love the way you call mourinho moronho and bundesliga bungaliga...creative lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_RdLGZ89uU...player_embedded

other manager's comments...Ian Holloway

Rooney is never going to be a legend of Man Utd if he leaves, simple...There's no need to dispute this

Ronaldo is a legend, just go to United's website there and see the legends section..the first United player to win World Footballer of the Year along with Ballon d'Or

that's so wrong

yeah buy honda he can play midfield and striker just buy him and sell 2 of our midfielders and 2 strikers job well done

seriously? He looks like a lesbian tbh...Handsome one ah, maybe Berba if his haircut is right

I will look at him as a new signing rather than the rebel from now onwards

Rumour's that one end of Old Trafford will be named after Rooney's agent...Oops