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"Over the last two or three years the manager has bought young players as he looks to the future, which is something you've got to do at this club. Myself, Scholesy, Nev, we'll not play for ever. We needed to bring the age of the team down and we've done that, but at the moment we've got a good mixture of experience and young players. Eventually these young players will be the future of United. The club never stands still and never will.
"It is probably a little harder to defend [the title] because everybody wants to beat the champions.
"There is that extra pressure, and there's also extra hunger from the likes of Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal because they haven't won it the season before. But if you have won it, the players have that hunger to do it again. And if the players who won it last year have got that same hunger, then we've got a great chance."