00:00Hello Michael, how have you found your first few days then as a Manchester United head
00:05coach and how does it feel to be sat in that chair today?
00:09Two different roles sat in this chair in front of you lot, it's very different to the role
00:13in coaching.
00:16It's fantastic to be here, it's a great feeling for me to be in this position. I played different
00:24roles for this club and learnt to fall in love with the club for so long. It's a massive
00:29part of my life and has been for so long. I'm fully aware of the position I'm in in so
00:35many different ways. As well as that I'm eager to succeed, we've got a big job to do, it's
00:42an important job and it always is here to win games and to play well and to do it in a certain
00:48way. One side of it is nice to be here but the other side of it is focus, concentration
00:55and a real drive to improve the team and improve the results.
01:02What does success look like then? Is it Champions League qualification, is that what success
01:05will be?
01:06I think improvement, I think certainly improvement, helping improve individuals. A big part of
01:13what I really enjoy is improving individuals and in the end I think if you improve the individuals
01:17we create a better team. So certainly working with the players and improving them with that.
01:23Yeah, listen, results, that's what it is. There's an element of performance, there's an element of
01:31improvement and there's an element of doing what it takes to win in certain ways, in certain
01:36occasions. So certainly higher up the league we finish, we want to keep pushing and finishing
01:41higher up as we possibly can and we'll see where that takes us.
01:44Has there been any stated expectations from the leadership team?
01:48No, not in terms of it has to be this way or that way. Like I said, we want to be near
01:56the top of the league, we want to be top of the league. That's pretty obvious to say but
01:59we've got to take some small steps towards that and European football obviously would be a step
02:05forward and we've got to keep pushing.
02:07Hi Michael, I was just wondering on that point of leadership, what conversations have you had with
02:12the likes of Jason and Omar and kind of understood some of the Glazer family might have been there
02:16yesterday or Sir Jim, so what have those conversations been like coming in your role?
02:20Yeah, I've spoke to Jason an awful lot and working closely with Jason and Omar as well and over the
02:25last few days we've spoke a lot as you'd imagine and yeah, the ownership group were in and around
02:32it, it was nice to see them and meet them yesterday and have a small chat with them,
02:36you know, they're taking care of business in some ways. We were able to share a few things so
02:44I wished us all the very best and it was good to see them.
02:49I was going to mention to you, when Ruben Amarin left, one of the things that he
02:53said in his last press conference was mentioning about Gary Neville and the players and clearly Roy
02:59Keane has immediately waded in. I know there's a personal element to that as well,
03:06so it's difficult, but in general how do you feel about knowing that all these famous
03:14Manchester United people are going to put more pressure on you basically?
03:20They're not putting more pressure on me, I don't feel that. You know, I think it's just part of it,
03:25you know, the role, I understand it, I understand there's plenty of opinions around and some are
03:29positive, some are not so much, but I think in some ways for me, in terms of you saying about putting
03:34pressure, for me it's totally relevant in terms of me and how I go to work and what I focus on,
03:39I kind of know already what we want to improve on and how we want to work with the players,
03:44and I've already said about improving things, you know, and there's a lot of opinions, a lot can be said.
03:52It is the way of the world, you know, I'm not going to pay too much attention to the most of that,
03:59I think it's not for me to do that, I think for me and the players and the staff it's a focus on
04:05how we're going to succeed really and that's our job, that's our responsibility, that's where our
04:10focus and our minds should be at, is doing what we can for this club.
04:13But that in particular was quite personal. Honestly, it didn't bother me, it didn't bother me.
