We will play with the best team in the world.

To succeed, we must act collectively. They must be on their bad day. We need to be in our best day. This is the formula for winning.

I am excited. I want my team and my fans to participate in this great struggle.

One thing is certain, we will get better every day, but tomorrow we must be ready and do our best.

It feels like it finished yesterday but we start again. We start from zero and go game by game. It is not good to think about the title in August and September. We will go day by day and try to get better each day."


I don't think it will be possible to do what we did last season [the Treble]. We climbed the highest mountain last season but we have come down that mountain now. We start the same as everyone else. Our mentality will dictate how the season will be. Every season you start from zero. The history speaks for itself. We need to try and do a performance against Burnley, then Newcastle and then Sheffield United.



Normally the first games are difficult, especially against newly-promoted teams. They have energy and want to start well. Vinny [Vincent Kompany] knows us well. He did an incredible job and destroyed the Championship. To win, win, win is so difficult in the competition. He is going to do really, really well [in the Premier League]. It is going to be a difficult game.