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On whether or not he received assurances from Sir Alex Ferguson and Ed Woodward:
"When they have said that, I don't say it to you because it is not any of your business.
"I can also quit by myself but that is something that I speak with Ed Woodward by himself and not with you and I don't have to say that to you.
"It is not like that in the football world."
On whether he is considering quitting:
"That is also something what I don't have to say but I have said already in former press conferences that it is not always like that the club has to fire or sack me.
"Sometimes I do it by myself.
"But I am the one who wants to speak first with the board of Manchester United and with the members of staff and with my players.
"And not with you, I don't think that is the sequence."
On if United played well enough at Stoke:
"No, certainly not the first half.
"Because we started very good against Norwich I thought so I have analysed it.
"But now we didn't dare to play our football what we can and I have analysed that as consequence of the circumstances.
"The pressure that you have to cope with as a player group, as an individual player because of course we give also a bad goal away.
"The first goal was a bad goal of course but I think the main reason is that we could not cope with the circumstances and play our way of football what we can.
"And in the second half and half time I have said that to my players.
"We have nothing to lose and you can cope better with that.
"And that you have seen in the second half but it was not good enough."
On Wayne Rooney being dropped:
"It is always a difficult decision to put your captain out of the team.
"But we are always making a gameplan and then we are comparing players with each other and that we are doing every week.
"And then we have decided to put him on the bench."
On whether it is the manager's job to enable players to cope with pressure:
"Yes of course.
"You can say that [I have failed] when you want to say that.
"But I don't think that a manager can afford the pressure in the environment and of course I do my utmost best to find solutions to cope with the pressure but at the end the players have to do that by themselves.
"I help them and then you say okay, you have failed. You can say that but I don't think it is like that."
On how Rooney reacted to being dropped:
"Like a very good professional.
"And I think that also is Wayne, that I have already told a lot of press conferences that he has a big contribution not only on the pitch but also off the pitch."
On how long he has left in the job:
"That's the question, that's always the question but I have said already also on television this is another situation because we lost the fourth match in a row so again it's another situation
"But I feel the support of everybody in the club."
On if he would prefer Ed Woodward to publicly back him:
"No because for me it's much more important that people are saying that to me and I am not so interested in public sayings because of the saying.
"Do you understand what I mean?"
On the conditions playing a part in the defeat:
"That is not so easy of course but it is also easy for a manager when he loses to say that.
"Of course the players of Stoke City are more used to these circumstances but I don't think it was a big influence.
"It was an influence, but not a big [influence] because we have prepared the game also in this way.
"We gave a bad goal away, the first goal was of course a bad goal and that influenced the game a lot more than everybody thinks.
"But what I said, I felt that my players didn't dare to play football and that was different in the second half, and that you have seen."
On if Stoke dared to play football:
"Yeah. They play the ball, control the ball, keep the ball when they want and they lost the ball also but that is also when you dare to play football but yeah in the first half they could keep the ball, in the second half they couldn't keep the ball anymore.
"That was a big difference but then we were already 2-0 behind."
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