First of all, what’s your reaction to being drawn against Juventus, Valencia and Young Boys in the Champions League group stage?

“Difficult for us, difficult for them [the other teams]. A very difficult group with one of the biggest candidates to reach the final [in Juventus] and a team who made an incredible investment on top of a fantastic team they had, so a big, big candidate. Valencia is also one of the top four teams in Spain and that says everything. Young Boys is, of course, a team that comes from the fourth pot and the world will say it’s the team that didn’t have a chance to qualify but for some reason they qualified, they went to Croatia and won in the play-offs [against Dinamo Zagreb], for some reason they beat Basel and they won the Swiss title. On top of that, they play on an artificial pitch, which is a big advantage for them and a big disadvantage for the other teams.”

Undoubtedly, all of the publicity will be about Cristiano Ronaldo coming back to Old Trafford, as it was five years ago when he returned with your Real Madrid team. Would you expect a similar kind of reaction from Old Trafford this time around?

“I think he [Cristiano] likes to come. My feeling when we played with Real Madrid here was that he was happy to come back and was happy to play at Old Trafford, but he was also happy to score and to win. He comes with a Juventus shirt, he went to Juventus to win the Champions League, he comes to Old Trafford to score goals and to win the match, but Old Trafford likes him and Old Trafford will always react in a positive way to him, which is a great thing.”