“So, I really hope that, next season, he scores 40 goals and he gets 40 assists, and is the MVP [most valuable player] of the league! And he can, you know, keep doing what he’s doing because I think he’s instrumental for the present and for the future of the club.”
While that may be a tall order in terms of goal involvements for our super skipper, he is closing on a century of goals for United.
He currently sits on 98, one behind legendary captain Bryan Robson, and will be out to add to that tally, starting in the season opener against Arsenal, at Old Trafford, on 17 August.