Manchester United veteran Juan Mata insists he has solid relationship with Jose Mourinho.

The Spaniard was sold to United by former Chelsea boss Mourinho in 2014.

"The respect is mutual, and we never had any personal problem," he said. "The situation was a football situation. He played in a certain way that maybe didn't suit perfectly my qualities as a player, and that's it. Sometimes it happens in football.

"But my mentality [when Mourinho joined United] was: 'Okay, I'm going to try'. My family was a bit scared. The fans were telling me, 'What are you going to do?' But I had it clear in my mind that I'm going to stay and prove that I can play much more than people think, and I did.

"And it's one of the things that I feel very proud of in my career: having made that decision, testing myself and keeping going and playing, at the end, the Carabao Cup final, the Europa League final, and feeling an important player in the squad.

"That's how I felt before, and how I felt with him."