First, you never can compare seasons with each other but I think we are much further than last season, but you can never compare games. Different opponents, we had a very good pre-season, our fitness levels are very good, we are on really good levels and I think also our performance levels during pre-season were on a high level.



We are very confident but also I want to mention pre-season doesn't say anything, it's friendly football. Though I never take a game as a friendly, it's friendly in the sense of going. In the league, going for the points it's a different approach for both teams. We are ready to go for the fight, the team is really energetic and we worked really good for pre-season and we go for it.



About Wolves; Some uncertainty, we don't know but it's up to them and we have to look at our own and prepare the game. That doesn't change it makes it also easy. We analyse them but it's always about how we play against an opponent, so it's up to us.

Manchester United a good side, a very good side, and I watched a fair bit of them in pre-season, but I’ve still got more to do. They’ve had some good performances and some fantastic players, and I think they will be better than they were last season from what I’ve seen, so it’s going to be a big challenge.

The big challenge for me will be that every other club in the league have been working towards this game for six weeks in a certain way and we’ve had a very different pre-season to that and have been working in a different way until four or five days to go.

But there are no excuses in there and I’m aware we have a Premier League game on Monday, so I want to make sure the group is as ready as we can be.

Game plan won’t be anything too complicated, there will be some detail to go into the game and how we go about it, but the message from me to the group, to the supporters and to everyone involved will be to attack a game at Old Trafford, see where we can get to, see how we can perform and see where that gets us on the evening, dust ourselves down and go again.