I want to take a long-term view. Being distracted by short term things can be dangerous when you are making cold, calm, long-term decisions.

More Quotes by Ed Woodward

There should be both a humbleness and an arrogance. Humble when you are on the team coach and you wear the club suit, you do up your top button and wear your tie, you represent the club in the right way. Then you sign autographs for the people who pay your wages.

Giving youth a chance is part of our philosophy, part of our DNA.

Some players are bought by other clubs with an eye to them developing into something special in a few years' time. Whereas there's a bit more pressure on some of the other clubs to bring in players who are going to be hitting the ground running and top players verging on world class almost immediately.

We're always able to look at a position and have our view in terms of the list of targets that would suit Manchester United and augment our team.

The scouts are watching matches and we have a huge amount of data we purchase and a pyramid approach in terms of delivering that information to our chief scout and his team who are assessing it.

I understand the scrutiny; it's part of the job. And I don't want to be famous and can't be mates with the players.