Quotes from Fred

We need to treat all games equally and go after the wins because we need to keep improving.

My wife talks a lot with Fernandinho and Ederson's wives.

Pogba is a great player.

Neymar is a great player, it is so difficult to mark him.

A great coach like Guardiola and a great team like City... I would develop a lot with them.

For me, Manchester United means greatness.

When people hear a footballer speaking, they can think about it and maybe even reconsider the prejudices they have.

I would never do anything that would harm me, and I am totally against using any kind of resource, illicitly, to benefit myself in any way.

Everybody wants to be in the World Cup.

I'm looking to show the best of my abilities every day and to work to improve, and that means working to play well and put in good performances in the Premier League and with Manchester United to achieve great things and win titles.

All I ever wanted was to play regularly and now that I'm doing that, there's no doubt my confidence is higher and that helps any player.

It's a huge club with great history and it's a real honour to perform for United.

My body is my work tool, right?

When the fixture list is released, while you're on holiday, wherever it is in the world, it reminds you and it makes you hungry to play again.

I don't say that there is a lot of difference between Fred from Shakhtar and Manchester, we are adapting. Here at United, I score a little more, I improved a lot. I think that is the main difference.

Foreign football is different and it has helped me evolve and mature, improving my attitude.

For me, I think the toughest player I came up against was Messi; he's out of this world, he's a genius. For me he's the best in the world, a great player and I think he's the toughest opponent I've played against.

We have to shut up and work on the pitch.

My father signed me up for football training when I was only four and my grandfather also used to take me.

My personal aim is to play a lot of games, put in great performances, do my best to help the team. Not get injured, obviously.

Because I was called a flop ever since I got here, my only intention is to be part of Manchester United's history.

Guardiola is a great manager, but I chose to join another great manager, Mourinho, at United.

I think my ideal position is to join the attack a bit more like I did at Shakhtar. I played more as a box-to-box midfielder, so I played a little bit further forward.

I am the kind of guy who you'll always see smiling. My childhood was like this. I had a lot of fun. We had a bad environment, but we also learned how to cope with it.