Andreas Pereira retains hope of a future at Manchester United.

The midfielder is currently on-loan at Granada.

Pereira told the Guardian: “When I came, I told myself: it's not Manchester United. It's a good club, a good league, but not the best in the world. At PSV we were always attacking and at United we always wanted the ball, then I came here and we're defending. It's hard to adapt, but it is good for me: I learnt a lot.

“I couldn't defend at all. Now I'm a lot better. It's a mental process and I would never have had this in Manchester. I know what it is now to have difficult games in a relegation team. I know what it is to have pressure for 80 minutes and then maybe in one counterattack need to score. Normally, it is the other way around at United."

He added: “I would love to go back and play at Old Trafford, but if they say: 'Andreas, we would like to loan you out again,' or 'we don't want you any more,' I don't know what I am going to do. But the focus now is Granada."