Manchester United defender Nemanja Vidic says the players are fully focused on winning the Club World Championship this week in Tokyo.

"I don't look forward any more. I never consider a match beyond the next one. That is the United philosophy I have learnt at Old Trafford since I have been here," says the 27-year-old defender.

"The next game is always my biggest game. If I think too far ahead then I wouldn't be focused. That is how Manchester United thinks.

"When you are at a club like United it is not about the game previous or the game at the end of the season it is all about the next one. You always have to show your quality and make sure you are consistently playing well. That's how you play for a big club.

"I think I am a better player now than when I arrived at United. Every game I think I improve a little bit. Sometimes you have a bad week or two but generally I think I have got better.

"I still have a lot more to improve on. That is why this club is so successful because the players are all hungry to improve and become better. That has made me hungry as well.

"I remember in my first few months at United after signing from Spartak Moscow I used to sit in the dressing room and see the players going off after training and I wondered where they were all going.

"But some would be going off to the gym to do work. Some would be off to do some stretching. Others would be staying out on the pitch or going back to work on something else. They were all very professional.

"It was a different mentality to what I had been used to at Spartak Moscow or Red Star. It was a mentality that said: `We want to be better'.

"If you want to keep yourself at the very top level and play for United for a long time you have to work hard and improve all the time. If you don't, you will lose your place and won't be a United player any more.

"It took me a bit of time to learn that, but I had to change my mentality. You cannot make it here if you don't work hard and do extra.

"It is that desire and hunger to be the best that will drive us on here in Japan. We want to be the champions of the world.

"Maybe because people back home in England are not too familiar with the names of the opposition here they think it will be easy and even that the tournament is not that big.

"But it will be tough and it is certainly a trophy we want to win. I know how much it meant to Red Star Belgrade and the fans back in 1991. It would be great to become another part of United's history."