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I went to Liverpool and in that moment you became our opponent, not my enemy, but an important opponent, one that is much more fun to beat."Always in football, like in life, you only find a solution now knowing you have two day later another problem. There's no long term, 'we have to deal with that for another two day then we can sort it'."We would have to deal with it for a year or two then we can make a big step, in a football case, contracts are running out, player goes anyway, sell him but because you're in such a rush all the time just because you have to win the next game."For United, in the years when they were not happy they would buy the time, Jose coming second, no one was happy.
In that time second was not good enough and now you're not even close to that but that's not a Man United story, it's a football story."You win, you're the greatest, you lose, you know nothing about the game, you draw, you're boring, it's only your idea and where you want to go. I don't know the United problems but Liverpool was the same, on the day we sold Phil Coutinho, that's not the day I thought, 'oh, good we have the money' I lost a player I wanted to work with for the next 10 years."We invested it smartly, that's true, but it's not we found the position and sorted it, we had to sort something differently, we found two players in Alisson and [Virgil] Van Dijk, that was for the future to go from there, and that's the difference I think."Join our new MAN UTD WhatsApp community and receive your daily dose of Manchester United content from Mirror Football.
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