Ole Gunnar Solskjaer responds to European Super League plan

“Just when we talk about bringing fans back into the stadium and we get this, getting them back for the last two games of the season, and we weren’t able to look forward to it. We have a banner at Old Trafford. ‘Football is nothing without fans’ and we’ve felt that for more than a year, it’s been a difficult year.

“And now when we’re just going to welcome them back in, we get this. So the preparation for Leeds was a bit different but that’s a part of being in this industry and this club as well. United is the biggest club in the world and we want to be part of European football but we want to do that like like my players did last season. I think they were excellent my players, because when I talk about this fear of failure, they were afraid of not making the Champions League, we were so many points behind, they pulled themselves together, we came together as a team and achieved third, which was a very good achievement. This year, we’ve worked hard, we’re striving towards trophies and we’re second.

“I back my team to be in the top in Europe but I still think that that fear of failure is helping us do that. Being a sporting competitor as I am, my nature is not being handed things, we cannot be handed a place; that’s my opinion. That’s long enough!