Ferguson:
"Reading will play the same type of team as at Old Trafford. The interesting thing for me is whether they will play one up front or two.
"I expect a difficult game, because Reading are the team of the season so far.
"They and their manager Steve Coppell have done fantastically."
"It [Liverpool match on Saturday] will influence me in terms of leaving out the older players in my team. The likes of Scholes, Giggs, Larsson are unlikely to be involved - but that apart everyone else will be there
Queiroz:
"We trust the players.
"We know they can deliver. We don't have to make changes but we need to do it because we have to ensure the team is as well prepared as possible for each individual game.
"As we approach this game, we have one thought in our minds; to make sure we travel back home knowing we are still in the FA Cup.
"If we start play against Reading with Liverpool and Chelsea on our minds, it will create a big weight for us to carry.
"Suddenly, you might see 25 players in front of you. You might see a midfield where Steve Sidwell is playing with Steven Gerrard. The players cannot afford to let that happen. They must create a blank wall in their minds and remain focussed on Reading and nothing else."
Talking about the first match at OT:
"We play a lot of games against a lot of different teams.
"Quite often, they do something special in one moment, or in one situation. On that night, Reading did it for 90 minutes. In every area of the pitch, their players knew what to do and how to do it.
"The quality of that performance was not something that just drops out of the sky.
"It only happens when you have good players, a good manager and a well-prepared team.
"During that game, I had a feeling Reading had something special."
Ferdinand:
"The FA Cup is massive for me. I would very much like to get my hands on it.
"I have never won it. I missed the Millwall games because I was banned and, obviously, then we got beaten by Arsenal, which will go down as one of the most disappointing days in my career so far.
"Winning it this year would wipe away some of the bad memories, so fingers crossed it will happen.
"The opportunity to play at Wembley is a great incentive.
"I grew up watching matches there, so it would be great to be one of the first players to go there and win."
Fletcher:
"These are exciting times.
"It is the business end of the season and we know there will be games now on Saturday, Wednesday, Saturday, right until the last week.
"But that is what you want. That is why you are at a club like Manchester United. That is what we should be doing.
"The FA Cup is still what it was.
"Nobody at the club is saying any competition is more important than another and we definitely regard this as a special tournament.
"The fact the final is back at Wembley just adds to the hunger to win.
"Wembley is the home of English football. It is a new stadium and everyone is looking forward to playing at it."
Coppell:
"We can't lose these next two games as far as I'm concerned. Given the agenda we had at the start of the season, even if we do lose we can't lose, but that's not an indication of our approach. We'll just give it our best shot and try and win both games. But realistically, who would relish playing Man United and Arsenal in two consecutive games? Most teams wouldn't, but in our circumstances we have nothing to lose. We'll just crash on.
"I wouldn't say having home advantage means anything, given their quality. Wenger says it sometimes, against Bolton, that they probably have a better chance away from home because teams play a certain way against them at the Emirates. That doesn't apply to us, but I'm sure Fergie isn't frightened about coming to the Madejski Stadium. In the last 10 minutes [at Fulham on Saturday], they had six players up front. In many ways you are in awe of these teams when they are flowing.
"You look at their ability going forward and you think 'Wow'. Our dilemma is do we go hell for leather, which is often admirable but fails, or do we be more circumspect and tailor our game?"
Reading captian Graeme Murty:
"It will be just like a Cup final, but then again it's been like that for every home game.
"Our fans have been magnificent all the way through. They've been the loudest they've ever been and it's got better and better. It will be a full house and they'll go absolutely nuts. It will be fantastic.
"I've no idea whether I'll be playing but I'm certainly really looking forward to the game. Our fans have been desperate for big games like this for years. It's a long time since we've had a real Cup run. It will be the fourth time we've played Man United this season - that's the biggest club in the land - so our fans are in dreamland."
He is a man who played in York's League Cup 3-0 win at O.T. in 1995:
"When you've been playing in the lower leagues for so long and then you finally get the chance to play against people you've only been able to watch on Match of the Day every week, it makes playing in the Premier League even sweeter.
"For example, you've got Cristiano Ronaldo, who can make you look an absolute mug any time he fancies. When you've got to go up against people like that, either you relish it or approach it tentatively. Our attitude has been that we should just go flat-out and show what we can do. Touch wood, it's worked thus far."
"We want to win every game. At Old Trafford people were saying it was a changed team but virtually every player was an international.
"Ulises De la Cruz has played over 100 times for Ecuador and appeared in two World Cups. You're doing him a disservice by denigrating him in that way. The manager put a team out he thought would win. Simple as that.
"There aren't many of us around who can say they've been to Old Trafford and won 3-0.
"It was an incredible feeling. I didn't score, nor was I involved in any goals, but I was heavily involved in the celebrations."
BBC:
Manchester United defender Nemanja Vidic is struggling to be fit and looks likely to miss out.
Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Edwin van der Sar and Henrik Larsson may be rested, while striker Alan Smith is likely to make a reappearance on the bench.
Reading defender Andre Bikey returns from suspension and Kevin Doyle is fit agin but January signings Michael Duberry and Greg Halford are cup-tied.
Boss Steve Coppell is expected to use some of his fringe players.
Reading (from): Federici, De La Cruz, Ingimarsson, Bikey, Sodje, Gunnarsson, Shorey, Oster, Seol, Sidwell, Harper, Little, Kitson, Long, Lita, Doyle, Hahnemann, Murty.
Man Utd (from): Van der Sar, Kuszczak, Heaton, Neville, Brown, Ferdinand, Vidic, Silvestre, O'Shea, Evra, Heinze, Ronaldo, Park, Scholes, Carrick, Fletcher, Giggs, Richardson, Larsson, Saha, Rooney, Solskjaer, Smith.
Daily Mail:
Sir Alex Ferguson is considering asking captain Gary Neville to play in an under-strength team for tonight's FA Cup replay at Reading.
Manchester United manager Ferguson will rest a host of senior stars at the Madjeski Stadium tonight as he looks ahead to Saturday's crucial Premiership match at Liverpool.
But although Neville was originally set to be one of them, it is understood that Ferguson may now play him after leaving his skipper out of the team that won at Fulham at the weekend.
Neville was left out at Craven Cottage after becoming involved in an altercation with Ferguson during the chaotic scenes that marred last week's Champions League victory at Lille.
Sources at United have indicated this week that he was omitted as a one-off punishment.
United do not travel to Berkshire until today and Ferguson has not yet made the final decision on his team.
But it is known that Neville was in his usual right-back berth as United practised team shapes for the match at their Carrington training centre yesterday along with fringe players such as Darren Fletcher, John O'Shea, Ji-Sung Park, Kieran Richardson and Alan Smith.
Senior players such as Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Henrik Larsson are not expected to start tonight's game which will leave Neville as by far the team's most experienced player, if he plays
The Guardian:
Sir Alex Ferguson has indicated he will again leave out Gary Neville when he names his side for tonight's game at Reading, this time as part of his policy to rest the club's thirtysomethings in the FA Cup. Neville was omitted from Saturday's victory over Fulham, reportedly after a row with Ferguson, but his absence tonight can be put down to more innocent reasons, with Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and Henrik Larsson also expected to be given the night off.
Sir Alex Ferguson has indicated he will again leave out Gary Neville when he names his side for tonight's game at Reading, this time as part of his policy to rest the club's thirtysomethings in the FA Cup. Neville was omitted from Saturday's victory over Fulham, reportedly after a row with Ferguson, but his absence tonight can be put down to more innocent reasons, with Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and Henrik Larsson also expected to be given the night off.
Instead Ferguson intends to put his faith in a side incorporating at least half a dozen understudies as he prepares for a fifth-round replay against, in his words, "the team of the season so far". Alan Smith may get his first start since November 7 while the extent of Ferguson's alleged fall-out with Neville may not become clear until Saturday's game at Liverpool.
Ferguson's reasons for excluding Neville at Craven Cottage, not just from his starting XI but also the substitutes' bench, was that he expected Fulham to play a tall side. It was an explanation that raised eyebrows - Neville is regarded as an accomplished header of the ball and United's smallest player, Patrice Evra, was preferred to Gabriel Heinze at left-back - and there have been reports that the United captain was being punished for aiming a stream of invective at Ferguson as they clashed on the touchline during the Champions League tie against Lille a week ago. Perhaps tellingly, United have chosen not to deny those stories.
Ferguson preferred to talk yesterday about Smith's impending return to the side. The former England striker has not been involved for the last four months after struggling to regain anything approaching his best form when he made his comeback from a broken leg.
"I said to him at the time that I thought going out on loan would be a good thing but he had the drive and ambition to say 'I want to get back into he team.' That showed great faith in himself and I like that," said Ferguson. "Alan has been unfortunate because of the form of the team without him but he still has a long-term future at the club."
Smith's involvement, however, is a clear sign that Ferguson no longer views the FA Cup with as much importance as previous years. "Everyone is saying it would be nice to get to the first final at the new Wembley," said the manager, "but it is not only going to be there for one year, is it?"
The Indie:
It was Sir Alex Ferguson's intention to "leave out the older players" for Manchester United's fifth-round FA Cup replay against Reading tonight, but for Gary Neville the rules have changed over the last few days. The club captain was left out on Saturday amid suggestions that Ferguson wanted to punish him for a dispute between the pair during the match against Lille last week.
Whether Neville gets a reprieve tonight - with the Premiership lunchtime kick-off against Liverpool looming on Saturday - will be a sign that he has served his punishment, a rare sanction for a player who has served Ferguson without a hint of indiscipline for 15 years. Having turned 32 this month, he has watched many team-mates fall out with Ferguson over the years but stayed firmly onside himself.
Neville could clearly be seen swearing at Ferguson when the United manager tried to usher him away from the Lille players as they seemed about to walk off in protest at Ryan Giggs' quickly taken free-kick.
Neville's rest on Saturday could now mean that he is among a United team tonight that will be changed with the Liverpool game in mind and will not feature, according to Ferguson, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and Henrik Larsson. Even in spite of the admissions by Ferguson, it seems that a far greater percentage of his first team will feature than Reading's, as Steve Coppell again made no apology yesterday for picking an almost identical side to the largely second-string XI that played at Old Trafford.
"It will almost be the exact same team," he said, "and I don't mind anyone knowing that."