Ronny Johnsen on reuniting with Utd treble winners and on turning around current side

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Ronny Johnsen on reuniting with Utd treble winners and on turning around current side  Interview ahead of Premiere of Amazon's series 99 on Utd treble winners  Printworks Cinema Complex, Manhcester, UK

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00:00So, you move forward, do you see any of the lads on anywhere at all, or is it just...

00:09No, yeah, yeah, yeah. We catch up now and then, to be honest.

00:14You know, sometimes we work for Manchester United as ambassadors and catch up there.

00:19Sometimes we play charity games and catch up there.

00:22Or you do some TV work and you catch up there.

00:26So, it's a different kind of area to catch up on.

00:30But it's always nice with this bunch of lads.

00:34We experience a lot of good periods together.

00:39So, it's always nice to catch up with them.

00:42What do you make of the current Manchester United side?

00:45You know, I think it's a good side.

00:47They have something really to look forward to now.

00:51It's the Wembley final.

00:54I think they have some results.

00:58Teams and players always go into times in their career that go up and down.

01:05But it's how you get out of that.

01:07And they know what to do.

01:09That's just hard work to get out of.

01:11If you feel a little bit down, just go on the training pitch to work as hard as you can.

01:16And build on the results you get.

01:21But now, United has really something to look forward to.

01:25And that's to go to Wembley.

01:27And that can put a really good stamp on their season.

01:30So, I think they work hard every day.

01:33With the changes that have gone on within the hierarchy,

01:36do you see good times ahead for United?

01:38Say again?

01:40With all the changes to gyms, buy-in from the hierarchy,

01:45director of football, all of these things.

01:47I'm looking forward to this period that comes now.

01:53We'll see.

01:55It's something I look forward to.

01:57To see in which direction it goes.

02:01With United as a club, there are going to be demands

02:07that are going in the right direction.

02:12It's something I think we're all looking forward to as well.

02:15We'll see what's going to happen.

02:16Sir Alex always used to say football is cyclical.

02:19It goes in cycles.

02:21So, this is just a difficult cycle.

02:23That's what I mean.

02:24It's always players and clubs and teams.

02:28The performance goes up and down a little bit.

02:31That's not only in football, but in sport in general.

02:36But it's how you work yourself out of it.

02:40That puts a stamp on the teams, how they go out.

02:45We'll see how they go on with it.

02:48Hopefully they can work hard and get the result at Wembley.

02:52Just finally, do you think there's too much football?

02:55We look at the injuries this year.

02:57Not just United, other top teams are all being hit hard.

03:01I know.

03:03I went through that a little bit myself as well.

03:05Even though they play more games now than we play.

03:11It's a lot of games.

03:15It's tough.

03:17I think the body can take most of it,

03:20but it's the concentration of the head which is really tough.

03:23Especially after, in my experience, you go out and play in Europe

03:28and come back to England and have an away game.

03:31That could be...

03:33And you play away games.

03:37That's very difficult.

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