Footballer

It's a huge club with great history and it's a real honour to perform for United.

If people criticise, you have to keep working.

I want to be a big player and be part of the history of Man United. I already am, but I want to make history here at the club and to win some trophies, so that is my goal at Man United.

That's what Brazilians are like - we're always having a laugh, we're always smiling, and my aim is to bring this spirit into the dressing room and onto the pitch, to play with a smile on my face.

Michael Carrick helps me a lot day-to-day. We always talk and he tries to help me with my positioning on the field. He's someone who always talks to me, which is important for adapting my football to the Premier League.

I played for Atletico and Internacional and then moved to Ukraine with Shakhtar Donetsk. My family supported me a lot and I'm very thankful for them.

I have changed a few things since playing in Europe, and for the better.

Everybody wants to be in the World Cup.

The English league is difficult and has lots of big clubs but I think the derbies are the best games to play so, when we see the fixture list, we look at those games first.

When you play at a big club, there will always be competition - I'm used to it. It's been like that from day one at United.

Passing is one of my main objectives in the game and when I make a lot of passes I'm happy.

My body is my work tool, right?

When I was 10 I started playing for Atletico Mineiro and that was the start of my professional career.

My wife talks a lot with Fernandinho and Ederson's wives.

Manchester United is a huge club. When I was young, it was a name I used to hear and it was a name I used to see on computer games and I used to play with the team.

It's an honour to be on the radar of great European coaches.

Obviously I'm not happy when I miss the passes so I look to get that right. I work very hard on that.

I was delighted to be called back into the Brazil squad. I think it was one of the most exciting moments of my life, just because of everything I had been through and it feeling like I had been given a second chance.

When everyone has the same goal, that's when we'll move forward.

We have to shut up and work on the pitch.