Ander Herrera - "I have United in my heart"
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Manchester United
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
UTD Podcast co-hosts Helen Evans and Sam Homewood travelled to Bilbao, Spain, to catch up with Ander Herrera, whose honesty and passion led to one of our best-ever episodes.
The former Reds midfielder speaks fondly about his childhood as the son of a professional footballer and sporting director, before recounting his first spell as an Athletic Club player – which included their famous Europa League victories over Sir Alex Ferguson’s United in 2011/12.
Herrera describes his 2014 transfer to Old Trafford in amazing detail and dissects his five popular seasons as a Red, offering amazing observations of former managers Louis van Gaal, Jose Mourinho and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer along the way. Then comes the touching moment he breaks down in tears, when discussing his difficult decision to leave the club for Paris Saint-Germain in 2019.
After three seasons in France, Ander is back in the Basque country with his beloved Athletic Club and their magnificent San Mames Stadium is the backdrop for our unmissable conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello quick heads up before we get started on this podcast usually as you know we sense a swearing |
| 0:05.6 | But I've dug a hole for myself and on this occasion we have left some swear words in there's a section |
| 0:11.3 | Where there's just repressive use of one specific word because we were talking about a specific aspect of Anders' game |
| 0:17.4 | It's the S word. I'll use it now so you know exactly what's coming |
| 0:20.2 | But if you've got kids and they're listening because I know it's time for you listen with children and you don't want them to hear it |
| 0:25.3 | It's shit |
| 0:26.5 | We could talk about shit housing is I mean, it's a really good bit of chat |
| 0:29.6 | But it means there is some swearing in this podcast and if we bleeped and |
| 0:33.0 | When that was happening then it sounded maybe like he was saying something worse than what he was saying and it sort of lost context a bit |
| 0:38.5 | So disclaimer there is some swearing in this podcast if that's not for you no problem, but it's a really good chat. Enjoy |
| 0:56.5 | Hello, and welcome back to another Manchester United podcast. This one is on the road. Yes, it also means we don't have David me |
| 1:20.8 | No, he's on his own trip and he sent us a picture of himself in time |
| 1:25.0 | The world's biggest fish |
| 1:27.0 | Fishing this time. Yeah, so many hobbies and we're in Bilbao |
| 1:31.2 | Pleans, trains and automobiles as high as I would describe my trip so far Sam. Yeah, go on. Tell everyone what happened |
| 1:36.8 | So I had to fly to Madrid get a connecting flight. This is not going to sound as dramatic as what it actually was |
| 1:43.0 | Sure, after a little bit of a delay at Manchester airport |
| 1:47.1 | sprinting like I mean sprinting through |
| 1:50.0 | Madrid airport from I don't know one terminal to another which felt like about seven miles |
| 1:57.0 | I literally just got to the gate and they closed the flight |
| 1:59.6 | So then I got bust to a hotel an airport hotel and Madrid and then I flew to Bilbao this morning |
| 2:06.0 | But you made it there wasn't written in there by the way that was the point of my story because I did actually get the train in the airport |
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