'As a manager when I know the contract is finished in the summer, I haven't spent as much time at the academy as I had come to do,' he said. 'But it is clear that I am now working as if I... I think of the club five and 10 years ahead of time now as well.
'I have always thought that I'm going to have to do the best job interview I can. It's not up to me to consider if I live up to the standard, but I feel much more at home in this building here, at Old Trafford, with these players, than I've ever done.'
'It's always been in the back of my head that this is the dream job. Of course, it is. But after what happened in Cardiff, I put this happening out of my mind,' he told Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang.
'As a supporter in all the years since I moved from here, I have thought about Manchester United and what I would do. I felt this was something I could do.
'I wasn't afraid to come here and not be ready for this job. So far, I've thrived.'
