Hull City caretaker boss Mike Phelan is looking forward to returning to Manchester United.

Phelan left United in 2013 as David Moyes replaced Sir Alex Ferguson.

“Having been successful at Old Trafford and having thoroughly enjoyed being a player, a coach and an assistant manager at United it is a terrific feeling knowing you are going to be in charge of a team to play against them, albeit as caretaker but it is something special," Phelan told the Manchester Evening News.

“I don't think there is anything I have to prove to Manchester United, my whole chapter of being part of the club's history stands on its own. I am not in it on Saturday to gain any credibility out of it. I have done my job at United and did it reasonably well. But I may have to beat them to get the job at Hull! That's the only reason I want to win.

“When you have put so many years in somewhere like I did at United and you have put so much time and effort into it to make it successful there is a point where you wonder why does it have to end.

“But in football there is a tendency to make decisions whereby later people wonder why they are made. However, it is water under the bridge now."