Aaron Wan-Bissaka

You go for a meal or something with family and fans are coming up wanting pictures and autographs and stuff. I don't think they understand when is the right time to approach or not.

I'm so thankful for the time my parents have put into me since I started playing. Taking me to training every day straight after work, missing meals to do so, taking me when the weather wasn't great, all the buses... it's paid off.

The journey throughout my life hasn't been easy.

I know there have been times in football where, if you don't block a shot, it can go in. So the best thing to do is simply to attempt to block every shot and every cross.

I know you cannot just dive into any tackle. You've got to make sure you time it right.

That's why I came to United... to get better and improve.

My striker days are long over. I do miss those days though - being a striker, scoring, celebrating, winning the top goal-scorer award.

Football is very regimented - you know what time to be up and you have your day planned.

I always have tried to think positively about my ability and have confidence in what I can do.

There is always pressure for every player who moves clubs when it comes to what a new club expects and how you settle in.

I realised I was alright at tackling around 18, but it just caught the eyes of the coaches when I was training with the first team at Palace. That's when I realised it was a special trait.

When I was at Palace I used to see players from other clubs, what they go through, what to expect, so when it happened it's hard to deal with it, but you just block it out and focus on the main thing which is football.

There's a lot of pressure at United. It's just how you deal with it. You realise the whole world is watching, not just your fans.

I'm on Instagram.

I don't do tweets. I can't keep up.

The only thing I can do when I get on the pitch is give it my all for the team and the manager.

Those crossing opportunities always come up in a game so you have to be prepared for them so you have to keep practising them and training them.

I loved watching Thierry Henry and Ronaldinho expressing themselves, so that's what I copied.

As a kid, playing for my country was a dream. It would be such a huge honour.

As an ex-winger, you get a sense of what they're trying to do: which way they might go, how they're thinking. You can anticipate things easier.

I'd never tackle on Walton Green. I was too busy doing the tricks, and I just didn't like defending. I'd intercept the ball because I was quick, but I only probably started tackling in the under-23s.

I knew it would make me a better player, coming to United.

My work in the final third is something that needs improving, for me.

When it comes to games, it's not just about my performance, it's about the team.

That's always the main aim: to get the clean sheet, then the team can get the win.

Training up against Wilf and Bolasie toughened me up.

It's quite hard to motivate yourself to train hard. Because you'd be telling yourself: 'What am I training for? When I'm not going to be playing.' But I had the mindset: 'I'll train for myself.'

I was a winger and you get a sense of where they're going to go. Even if they don't go that way, it's advantage for me with the length of my legs and I'm still confident I'm going to get the ball. If I can get there I'll do my best to get there.

We're always up for a game, to put 100 per cent and I think that will show with results.

Twitter can be a dark place, so I avoid it.

I can feel it in myself, the confidence and excitement of when every game comes up.

Paul Pogba has advised me a lot.

I always want to be pushed to reach my potential.

I'll stick to what I know, and that's football.

It's an unbelievable feeling and an honour to call myself a Manchester United player and something I know that only a small number of players have the privilege to say.

I do not focus on speculation, I just keep my head down and keep doing it on the pitch. It is easy for me to block out, the main thing is just playing football.

Growing up I looked up to Henry. I just like goals, I liked the way he scored goals.

The captain has one main job: be a leader for the team.

If I had to choose between a goal-saving tackle and scoring a goal, I'd go for a goal.

Personally, I want to keep adding more goals to my game.

If I could add any attribute from any team-mate to my game, I'd have to pick Bruno's vision. In training, if I'm against him, I'll think he's going for an obvious pass, say over my right shoulder, but then he'll play it somewhere else in another way. He's so unpredictable.

When I was younger, I wanted to score goals, and that was what Thierry Henry was doing, playing in a similar position to where I used to play.

It was hard for me growing up, because Palace were my local team, but my family supported Arsenal.

I was just drifting away with the wrong friends. There were times when I'd have training at seven and I'd be out with them before and it would make me late. Apparently Palace were looking to release me at 14 because of things like that. They didn't tell me that but my dad did.

At around 14, 15, I was turning up late, was lazy, wasn't trying in training, looking tired. It was diet stuff too. After school it was chicken and chips, fizzy drinks, stuff like that.

I started in the U21's tackling a lot, it got noticed that I was quite good at it, but I didn't realise it until I played in the right-back position.

My target is to play as much as I can and perform well.

I've got two leaders in Mamadou Sakho and James Tomkins. Having them next to me, I don't feel afraid. I know they've got me in all situations.

I've never thought of anything other than becoming a professional footballer. So that was always on my mind, which helped me push and chase that dream.

I'd say Raheem Sterling; those are the battles I've enjoyed the most. He keeps going, just keeps on coming at you. Doesn't matter if he doesn't get past you in one challenge, he keeps coming back for more every time. That's what I like.