Carlos: We did game a favour
The Reds won the Premier League title with potent attacking
football last season, and United's assistant manager Carlos Queiroz
believes it did the game a huge favour.
Sir Alex Ferguson's right-hand man says the Reds proved that it is
possible to play entertaining football and win English football's
top honour.
"Our expectation is always to win and to produce great football and
entertainment," he told ManUtd.com. "Winning, playing great
football, attacking football, that is the Manchester United
culture. It has always been like that.
"It was very important, not just for Manchester United, but for the
game, that we won the championship.
"For some time, the game has moved in one direction. The systems
and the strategy and the way the teams approach the game, so
defensive and cautious. We proved it is possible to win trophies
with an attacking style of football."
Queiroz is not a believer in taking the cautious approach and
insists United's style of play will go a long way to ensuring
entertainment remains one of the key ingredients in the game.
"Sometimes, with so much competition from all the other sports and
TV, football needs to find other innovative and creative situations
to keep the title of the best entertainment sport in the world," he
explained.
"We believe, and the manager is a great believer, that should be
our direction. Based on that, of course we need to have different
approaches against Bayern Minich, Real Madrid and Juventus.
"But we also need to play some great football, with fantasy,
imagination and creativity. We need to produce attacking football
and be sure when we have the trophies in our hands, it is because
we deserve it."