Juan Mata

Van Gaal is how you see him in the press conferences; he's like that with us, too. He's honest and straightforward. He believes in his style of training and way of preparing for games.

I train a lot. After training sessions, I like to stay with some balls and some goalkeepers - they help me a lot, too.

My duty, what I have to do, is try my best in every training session, leave everything of me on the pitch. That's how I can go to bed at the end of the day and be happy with myself.

London is a very big city, Manchester is calmer. I live near the training ground, so I do things around there in the countryside, but I really like Manchester's Northern Quarter, where they have nice coffee shops and live music places.

I'll always be proud to say I played at Chelsea, at Valencia, in the youth system at Real Madrid, in the youth system at Real Oviedo, and for United.

I am thrilled to be joining United. I have enjoyed some very happy years at Chelsea, but the time has come for a new challenge.

As I always say, one of the best things of football is that the game is testing you all the time.

For a kid that just played for Oviedo, to then going to play for a team like Real Madrid, it felt fantastic. But being taken out of my family home and moving away alone, into the residence Madrid have for young players, it was a bit difficult. But as time passed, I got used to it.

For me, good football is not about how many skills you show or how many players you beat. It's about making the right decision every time you have the ball.

I like creative players and players who do different things.

That's what I work for every day: training and playing to the maximum, trying to do the best I can.

My adaptation on the pitch has gone in parallel with my adaptation to London.