Fellaini himself, in an interview with Belgian website DH, admitted that it was a hectic last few minutes:
“I'm starting to recover. I'm slowly getting over the exhaustion, the nervousness and the excitement of my transfer. After all, those emotions can only be found together during a transfer window."
“The most stressful part was the resistance from Everton, who wanted to keep me. On the other side, David Moyes never gave up on me. I went back to plead Everton to let me go. My transfer went through at 10.59pm.
For 5 minutes, I was in bits: I had no idea if the document had gone through or not, but everyone at Manchester United was reassuring me that it had. In 2008, When I left Standard in Belgium, I wasn't as stressed. If the deal had fallen through, it wouldn't have bothered me that much: I was young, I was happy at Standard and all my friends were fans of the club".
“You can't say no to Manchester United where you get the chance to play alongside some fantastic players and in a stadium with 80,000 fans. I'm finally going to fulfil my dream: to really challenge for the title and play Champions League football. Up until now, I'd only ever reached the qualifying rounds".
As to where he will play on the pitch, he knows it's not up to him: “David Moyes will decide, but he knows that I prefer playing as a defensive midfielder."
Well isn't that nice? I'm looking forward to the wigs being worn around Old Trafford this season as well. Just a small error though Marouane, it's 76,000 fans.
Fellaini's in-depth interview
posted on 5/9/13
because Valencia and Giggs are clearly hypnotists and will play every game
posted on 5/9/13
Fellaini isn't really a goal scoeing box to box CM tbh.
His goal scoring stats are kind of scewed because he does play further up the field quite often
He very very rarely scores playing in the deep lying CM position
posted on 5/9/13
We don't generally need him to score goals, with Kags, RvP, Nani & Rooney ahead of him & Carrick, I highly doubt we'll struggle for goals.
posted on 5/9/13
Kags for 6 last season (3 was in one game) and by the looks of things, isn't first choice under Moyes.
Nani got like 2 goals last season?
Carrick....not sure why you mentioned him. Setting up goals isn't his job.
We do need goals from midfield, any successful team needs goals from midfield
posted on 5/9/13
What I meant was, you're making it out like Fellaini needs to be scoring 10-15 a season from midfield to be warranted.
We didn't struggle to score last season, and I don't think we will this season either.
posted on 5/9/13
We didn't struggle to score last season, and I don't think we will this season either.
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Youre right, but we did rely heavily on RVP's goals especially to win us games
I know it's normal to rely on your star striker to score goals but I feel we became overly reliant.
Last 2 games have got me a little worried. When was the last time we failed to score in 2 successful games under Fergie? (genuine question becuase i actually don't know)
posted on 5/9/13
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 16 minutes ago
Why not Macca?
If Fellaini earns a first team spot and Rooney plays well, I'd say that's pretty much are strongest team.
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I agree but just don't see it happening
I wanted something similar last season and we only saw it once
Seeing Giggs on the right and Nani on the left when he came on tells me what Moyes thinks
Think Moyes is hooked up on Danny and Young too
posted on 5/9/13
When was the last time we failed to score in 2 successful games under Fergie?
don't know about 2 successful, but if we don't score against Palace it'll be the first time since 92' we fail to score in 3 games
posted on 5/9/13
When was the last time we failed to score in 2 successful games under Fergie?
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Last season
Norwich and Gala
posted on 5/9/13
If we fail to score against Palace at home, there will be outrage. Imagine the backlash