Starting off with some team news. Could you explain maybe how long Patrick [Chinazaekpere] Dorgu could be out? And are there any other players coming back like Joshua Zirkzee or Matthijs de Ligt?
“Yeah, Josh is back training this week, which is good news. Obviously, first time, so he's been out for a short amount of time, but first kind of training with us since we've been here, so that's great to have Josh back. Pat, unfortunately, he's going to be out for a period of time. We're still working through how long that's going to be. So, we'll have to see, you know, disappointing, he's had such a big couple of weeks, Pat. So, we weren't sure whether it was a little bit of cramp or whether it was something a little bit more serious and at the moment it looks a little bit more on the serious note. So, it'll be a few weeks for that. How many weeks? We'll have to wait and see. So, that's disappointing for all of us really, and for Pat, you know, he's in such a good place, but unfortunately it is part of football and it's something we got to work through and get him back as soon as we can.”
And just on De Ligt, is he still out?
“Yeah, he's not trained with us yet, so just working through and the process really of getting him back as soon as we can.”
Michael, when you look across the last year or so from United, I know you've not been here that entire time, but you've watched a lot of the team. A consistent theme has been the struggle to win games consistently at Old Trafford. Do you know why that is?
“I think, ultimately, consistency is the key to success, you know, and I think it's, in my eyes, one of the most difficult things to achieve, to be good consistently. So yeah, it takes so much, you know. It takes a level of performance. It takes a level of mentality and the intensity and the concentration and actually being able to cope emotionally with the ups and downs of what each game brings and moving on to the next. So, there's so many things and I kind of go into it. And listen, that's what we're working towards, you know, we've had a great couple of weeks, two big results. There's big games, bigger games coming up, and it's just keeping the mind in the right place as much as the emotions to be able to go into the next game, just as we have done the previous two.”