"With the likes of Smalling, Jones and Evans we still have great hopes for that penny to drop,"
"They're still developing and picking up injuries but when they stop and the penny drops you think: 'We've lived with his faults, development and now we're getting the benefit of it.'
"There is no doubt that Jones, Smalling and (Luke) Shaw have talent but they need experience, maturity and injuries to stay clear and they will fly."
"When I look at the United defence what it lacks is control,"
"I see players that have talent but they're all individually working, not having controlled movements together of in-sync. That comes through understanding and from playing together."
"The reason that Chelsea have the best back four in the league is because they have good players, they play every week without many injuries."
"United have been absolutely blitzed with injuries in those positions for the last three years."
"At times they look all out at sea but you have to say in Louis van Gaal's defence, he has had Darren Fletcher in defence, Michael Carrick in defence with Antonio Valencia and Ashley Young as wing-backs that have done well."
About Michael Carrick
"At the start of the season we were struggling, ask yourself who wasn't playing? Michael Carrick wasn't playing," "Now he's playing and the club went on a great unbeaten run."
"When you play with Michael Carrick you think there is authority, control, peace."
"When you are on a football pitch playing against Liverpool or Manchester City, you need peace around you as well. You sometimes don't want people running around.
"Scholes and Carrick together was peaceful. It was like going into a bar and hearing a piano playing.
"It's relaxing. Listening to some good rock is good and you like that too but sometimes it's nice to listen to a piano. Carrick's a piano."
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