Benfica will forever be in my heart.
— Nemanja Matic
I played for Chelsea for three-and-a-half years and I gave them my best to win against them and show my quality again. I didn't have anything to prove to them. I wanted to show my new club that I deserve to wear this Manchester United shirt.
I am a simple guy, most of the time I am with my family, my wife and my son. I like to be with them and they make me happy.
I had other offers, but Mourinho is Mourinho. It's exciting to work with him, he is the best coach in the world and I want to work with him for a long time.
I have good friends at Chelsea. I talk sometimes with Eden Hazard, Gary Cahill, Cesc Fabregas but with all of them they are my good friends and they are good guys.
In the Champions League, everything is possible.
When you finish the season with a trophy it's different.
When you don't have results it is very difficult for players to have that high confidence.
I recognise fully why people wear poppies, I totally respect everyone's right to do so and I have total sympathy for anyone who has lost loved ones due to conflict.
My wife and son cried when we left Portugal, but I had to move.
To play at Old Trafford in a Manchester shirt I think is something special.
I just have to improve here at Chelsea. I played in Portugal but here it is a higher level so I'm sure I can improve a lot and I will work hard every day.
For a young player, the most important thing is to play.
I'm happy in Manchester and that's it. Moving to United was good for me. I play for a big club.
In the defensive midfield position, the player needs to give balance to the team and try to control the game. That's exactly what I try to do.
I always watch Chelsea games when I have the time and step-by -step, game-by-game, Chelsea is growing. I speak with Branislav Ivanovic, my friend and international team-mate a lot, a few times each month, so I know everything about the club.
My son is now a big Man United supporter. Of course, he supports me always.
Everyone knows where I play, as a defensive midfielder, more or less the same, so in the last six or seven years I play in that position and there is nothing new for me.
I have enjoyed my time at Chelsea and would like to thank the club and the fans for their support.
The Manchester derby, for our supporters, is the most important game in the season. Always, a few days before the game, the people create that atmosphere that is special to them.
I'm happy to be working with Mourinho.
Manchester is one of the biggest clubs in the world and I'm very happy because I am part of this great club, this great group.
I'd first come to Chelsea from Kosice and, for me, that was a dream. It's not easy making that move. I was maybe the first player to come from Slovakia to a club like Chelsea, who normally buy players from Holland, Spain, Italy, Portugal.
Of course, I know that I have some qualities. I think I can run a lot, that I'm physically well but if I have other qualities I will leave other people to speak about me.
I think throughout your whole career a player can improve.
When you leave a big club and go on loan to a small club in Holland it is not easy. But I am a footballer and I have to be professional about my job.
I don't want to speak about why I left Chelsea. I will keep that to myself.
It is sometimes better to stay with the same team... for stability.
I've played regularly in a big club at Benfica, where it is not easy and there is a lot of pressure. In those years I learned to be a winner and play under that pressure.
I am always positive.
Vidic was a great player and one of the players where I look to be similar because he had a great career.
I am delighted to have joined Manchester United. To work with Jose Mourinho once again was an opportunity I couldn't turn down.
I think derbies are really special because it's two local teams playing.
As I said, when I played at Chelsea I give always my best to help the team but now Manchester United is my club and I will try to win there.
When I come home, I always look in the mirror and I want to see where I could do better, where I can improve.
When I arrived at Benfica I'd been playing like a No. 10 in the team, but the first thing the coach did was tell me: 'You are going to be a defensive midfielder here.'
Defensive midfielder is my position and I have to be focused on that role.
For me, I want to improve, to play good football in a good league; the money is not the most important thing.
The Premier League is not easy for young players because it is very hard, very tough. Most of the players are very tall.
