I didn't want to come from playing every week at Blackburn to becoming a bit-part player at United, but I knew I probably had to do that at the start.

Lots of clubs showed an interest in me, but United just felt right; the whole club, the set-up. It wasn't the fact that it was United, it was that I walked in here and met people, the staff and physios et cetera, and it just felt right.

It was brilliant when I heard of United's interest, an incredible feeling.

When you come into training in the morning, knowing that people are talking about you in the same breath as players of the Busby era, it is fantastic, but I can't let it affect me.

Playing in midfield is a different ball game. You have to be on the half-turn all the time, have a different picture in your head of what is behind you and in front of you. Playing at right-back is different again.

When I was switching around in my early stages, people underestimated how difficult it was just to go from playing centre midfield to right-back to centre-back to right-back to centre midfield.

When times are tough I am not one for just throwing the towel in.

I feel like I have done a lot at United, I still have developed as a player and grown into myself, seen a lot of faces come and go.

It is an old cliche but it is game by game for me.

I love playing football so I want to play as many as I can.

I've said all along from day one centre-back is the position I feel most comfortable in but if I'm asked to play right-back or midfield I'll go and do a job there.

Those 12 o'clock kick-offs can be good if you win as then you've got the rest of the day to celebrate and enjoy it. On the other hand, if you lose, it's not a nice feeling. You spend the rest of the day mithering about the game and going over it in your mind for the next eight hours.

It's always nice to play in the position you feel most comfortable in.

It always helps to play every game at the back with the same players. You get a good understanding of each other and how one of you works, and what positions to take up.

I will do anything I can to improve myself.

England is nice. I always said that if I was playing games for United consistently and playing well I'd have a chance of getting back in.

There's different aspects of the game you have got to pick up along the way. I think I am picking it up fairly quickly and I'm learning all the time and I can only get better.

I'd like to think that centre-half is my best position.

Zlatan has been fantastic. He's one of the best characters I've played with.

My understanding of the game has improved. The technical side has improved. All round I have improved in leaps and bounds at United. I learn something every day in training here and I am just loving it.

I want to become the best I can be and be at my best for a good number of years.

There have been some terrific player's names being bandied around that I am being compared to and that is great. I am just able, touch wood, to take it in my stride. That's how I am. I am not embarrassed or pressurised by it. It is just great and I want to do as well as they did.

The FA Cup is a great competition and one we want to win.

I only really set short-term goals because I don't want to put too much pressure on myself.