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Mata would love to bring Premier League title back to Man Utd

Manchester United veteran Juan Mata admits he'd love to bring the Premier League title back to Old Trafford.

Mata says the bus parades for trophy triumphs are his favourite times as a footballer.

He told the Official Manchester United Podcast: “It's just unbelievable, it's better than winning the trophy. When you go for hours and hours through this city and there's not one single square metre empty. People in the windows, people screaming at us, people celebrating with us. That was the best thing. I still have goose bumps when I speak about it. I would love to do that here, I would love to do that in front of the restaurant (his restaurant, Tapeo and Wine).

David de Gea always tells me when he arrived here, I think they lost the Premier League by one point in the first season but in the second season they won. He told me it was incredible. And everything was red and it was just unbelievable. I'm counting the days to be able to do that.

“I would love to win it (the Premier League) and of course I want to win it before I finish playing."

“Maybe I will play until my 50s if needed but if I don't win it it's alright also. You know I'm not really obsessed about it, it would be very nice to have won almost everything. When people ask me, 'if you have to choose one?', it would be the Premier League."


You can listen to the rest of the interview from Monday evening, as well as previous UTD Podcast episodes, via the Manchester United website, App and all your favourite podcast platforms.

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