Watched the Friday Night Football post match show and here are the quotes from Pogba, Shaw and Mourinho to the best of my ability (so not great). Apologies if there are any obvious grammatical/spelling mistakes.
Paul Pogba
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Luke Shaw
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Jose Mourinho
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Paul Pogba
on starting with a win
"We should start the Premier League with a win and we did it today. We knew it was going to be difficult because I personally didn't have any pre-season matches. I came back on Monday so it was difficult on my legs, the stamina but we played very well. The performance of the team was okay but we just want to go up and that's it."
on designated penalty taker
"We don't have a taker. The manager has names but it depends on how we feel. I decided to take it but maybe the next game I can leave it to Alexis - it is not a problem. The win is the most important thing."
on the run-up to the penalty
"It is my style of taking penalties. I've always done it. I know it is long. I know it can disturb the goalkeeper but that is how I take it. The most important thing is the ball goes in because if you miss it then I know what I'll hear."
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on playing with Fred
"We started okay. I wouldn't say it was the best game but obviously it is normal. We've just started to play together. We started to train together. He's a very good player, I know he will really help us and with Andreas too - very young and showed his ability today. To be honest I feel very comfortable with him and with the rest of the centre mids I think we will be very happy with Fred this season."
on what he's hoping to achieve with United this season
"I'm someone who likes challenges. I want to improve. I want to progress. You have to keep working to get better and better because I'm still quite young - 25 - and I want to improve, I want to learn again and I want to win more trophies. The World Cup is a great cup, it'll stay in my mind but I want to win other trophies - Premier League, Champions League, European Championships we can win hopefully."
Luke Shaw
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on being in the position he was to score the goal
"We worked on it a lot in training when Juan comes inside it gives me licence to push on and get forward. I know the quality Juan's got and I knew he was going to pick me out and I got in the box - great first touch as Gary said(!) but no, for me it is my first goal and the most important one. It doesn't matter how I score it but at least I'm up and running now."
on his touch for the goal
"I was meant to come inside but I think I managed to get there before him, got my foot on it and put it in the other corner. Schmeichel came up to me after and was like: 'You spawny man! You're lucky' but I said I didn't care, and I don't care how it goes in."
on what it was like to see the ball crossing the line
"For my career so far it is the best feeling I've had and I want more feelings like that. That is why you come to stadiums like this - teams like this - to score and help the team. Honestly, the best feeling to date was today."
on the 'reports' about him passing fitness tests
"I've worked really hard over the pre-season. I've had a lot of time off and a lot of time to think and do what I needed to do. Fitness-wise I felt very good. I'm a bit disappointed with my performances over pre-season because I know I could have done much better - even tonight I know I can still do better - and that is what I want to be: a better player. I'll keep working hard, I'll keep showing the manager what I can do and hopefully I'll stay in the team and keep going."
on pushing on to become United and England's number 1 leftback this season
"I hope so. I don't want to speak too soon after one game but I'm working really hard and I want to be up there with the best leftbacks in the world and with a great manager and teammates behind me I think I've got the foundations to do that here at Manchester United. I want to be back in the England squad and I want to be involved in competitions like the World Cup. I think mentally that is what pushed me on even more because over the summer it was amazing to see how they had done but then disappointing for myself to be sat at home watching. I've been to the World Cup in Brazil and I want to in the World Cups and the Euros and be fighting for a place here in the Champions League and the Prem games."
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on being encouraged to go forward
"I look back at last season and don't think I was playing the way that people knew what a footballer I was with my attacking capabilities. This season I think I've felt more confident - especially today - and I want to keep doing that. Obviously, defending is the first thing for a fullback but nowadays it is all about attacking and I think I'm known for attacking and helping the team create chances and goals and I did that today.
on what he has to do to become a regular leftback under Jose
"Work hard, give 100%. He likes a player with desire, workrate and aggressiveness. He does like me to attack and I think last season that is why he was a bit disappointed with me because he knew I could do that and wasn't doing that when I was playing he said. Of course, defending is very important for him. He likes to keep the team compact and defending is the most important thing for him. I think I'm learning more about that, watched a lot of videos and I get a lot of help from him and the two new coaches we have in Kieran [McKenna] and Carras (Carrick) this season."
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on his assessment of the game
"I think Mr. Scudamore must be happy because it is a good way to start the Premier League. Good match, three good teams in my opinion. A match where I needed six changes - three was not enough for me. I wanted to play Martial for Mata or Alexis but I can't. I know that Paul can't play 90, Fred the same. I need more changes but I couldn't so it wasn't easy to manage the game from a touchline point of view. As I told the players, we had very good periods [of play] and lots of glimpses of the football we want to try to play. When Leicester was stronger than us we coped with that as a team which is also an important thing."
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on being concerned about Leicester having more possession
"You are always concerned because the result is short (narrow) and at any moment a goal can come but I think the team played as a team in these difficult moments. In the second half I had Andreas Pereira and Fred both with a yellow card and Paul's contribution was amazing but his fuel was disappearing every minute so we were in trouble and I needed McTominay and Fellaini to give me that balance in midfield. At the same time I felt like I want more in attack, I felt that Martial could come into this game for the last 20-25 minutes for Mata or Alexis and could bring us what we thought would be a second goal and kill the game but I couldn't make that change so it was really hard.
"The players gave everything. I told them to give what you have and if you have 10 minutes, you give 10 minutes. Marouane told me 'I can't give you more than 10 minutes' so I said okay, but give me the 10 minutes if I need. Everybody did that in a fantastic way and obviously it is important to win and play well.
"I think we played well in periods of the game and we played against a good team that invested more than us - spent more money than us. I think in the Premier League we must get used to teams who have players with the same quality that we have. Forget their name, forget their history, forget their shirts, and every team is a good team. Every match is difficult so three points in the first match of the season after such a difficult pre-season with half the boys with three days of training was important."
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on if he still stands by what he said about it being a difficult season for United
"Of course it will be. I think it will be a difficult season for everybody - not just for us - but for us it will be a difficult season because I had my plans for many months and I find myself at the start of the season with the market closed with a situation I thought I was not going to be in. I think it is the last time I will speak about it - maybe the last time in the press conference if any of your colleagues make any questions but it is over! The market is closed and there's no more talk about it.
on if there is a problem with the board
"That's football management. I think football is changing and football managers should be called head coaches. We have big multi-functional coaching staff and I think we are more the head coach than the manager. That is the way football is going."
on if he can challenge for the title
"I think we have to wait for the end of November, beginning of December to understand how things go and if we can fight for the title or if you believe in the pundits and go for what they say."
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on Luke Shaw
"I'm very pleased. In 90 minutes he made one mistake and it is the kind of mistake where the linesman could help and give a freekick for us and solve the problem. He was very good defensively. He was good with the ball, physically he coped well. He had a good pre-season. He was one of the guys who played every match and trained for five weeks so he's one of the guys - like Andreas Pereira. I can't leave without talking about Andreas Pereira. He's a right winger at Valencia that spent the season on the bench. At Old Trafford he comes in as a number six and played a phenomenal match."
