I didn’t want to come from playing every week at Blackburn to becoming a bit-part player at United, but I knew I probably had to do that at the start. Phil Jones Read Quote
I am not a player who goes on mazy runs – I like to defend. I like to do a job for the team. Phil Jones Read Quote
I feel like I have done a lot at United, I still have developed as a player and grown into myself, seen a lot of faces come and go. Phil Jones Read Quote
When I was switching around in my early stages, people underestimated how difficult it was just to go from playing centre midfield to right-back to centre-back to right-back to centre midfield. Phil Jones Read Quote
Playing in midfield is a different ball game. You have to be on the half-turn all the time, have a different picture in your head of what is behind you and in front of you. Playing at right-back is different again. Phil Jones Read Quote
When you come into training in the morning, knowing that people are talking about you in the same breath as players of the Busby era, it is fantastic, but I can’t let it affect me. Phil Jones Read Quote
Lots of clubs showed an interest in me, but United just felt right; the whole club, the set-up. It wasn’t the fact that it was United, it was that I walked in here and met people, the staff and physios et cetera, and it just felt right. Phil Jones Read Quote
We are at a massive club here at Manchester United and if things aren’t going as well as they should be then there is always going to be people wanting to have a dig and a pop at you. Phil Jones Read Quote
