Read Ruben’s quotes on Bruno, Kobbie & more

When we saw you in the summer, you spoke about organising a leadership group because there were things that ended up on your desk that you perhaps didn’t want to end up on your desk and it could just be solved in the dressing room. Is this thing with Kobbie one of those things that you maybe don’t necessarily have to get involved in but maybe the leadership group could pull him to one side and say: ‘Look…’
“No, it’s continuing a little bit, everything on my desk. Every problem in our football club, it’s still me who has to deal with that, but it will take time. But again, my door is always open and there was not Kobbie. The job of Kobbie is to train and to play, I felt he did really well this game [against Bournemouth]. So, that is the most important thing for me. If he has to play, he’s going to play. If he’s not going to play, he’s not going to play.”

I don’t know if you saw what Chido Obi and Harry Amass posted on social media in the week, what do you make of that? It seems quite petty…

“I think it is a little bit the feeling of entitlement we have in our club. Sometimes, strong words is not bad words. Sometimes, difficult moments are not bad things for the kids. We don’t need to be always with accolades in everything, in every situation. That’s why you guys talk about a lot of players nowadays, that they speak, they go against the clubs and everything happens because they feel entitlement. Then you have legends of the club who say if you don’t play, leave, because everyone is wrong. No, let’s think about… let’s stay, let’s fight, let’s overcome, maybe the manager is wrong. So, I have that feeling all the time that we need to fight against this feeling. Sometimes, I’m the first one to say I’m failing this club inside the pitch. I have that feeling, we are not performing the way we should be. But outside the pitch, I guarantee I am not failing this club. So, I think it’s something in our club. We talk about the players sometimes forget what it means to play for Manchester United, we as a club sometimes forget who we are and that is the feeling I have. I understand everything, it’s the environment, it’s the moment of the players, the kids, they feel entitled. They feel free to respond to the manager with a picture. My office is open, nobody is coming to talk to me and that is the way we can solve things. So, I think we need to change first as a club and then everything is going to change.”