My Week At United: Jonny Evans

In a feature first published in Friday's United Uncovered, Reds defender Jonny Evans looks back on the last few days and the eventful final hours of the transfer window...

We actually had a day off on transfer deadline day so I was out and about with my family but I was keeping an eye on what was happening. You know that nothing properly kicks off until about 10 o’clock at night so when it got to that time I had the TV on and sat down to catch up on everything.

Just like the fans, players get excited by all the happenings on the day, and as a footballer you can understand what a player must be going through at that moment. Some players might find out they’re leaving a club that maybe they don’t want to leave or there might be an opportunity that comes up at a club that you want to go to.

One day you might be playing somewhere and the next day you can be playing in another country and have to move your whole family or you move from one side of the country to the other. Looking at it from that aspect, it's a big thing. It's obviously exciting and crazy to watch all the transfers happening between clubs, especially those that you maybe didn't see happening, but they could be good moves for a club or a player.

All the lads were talking about it when we got back into training, particularly the fact that we'd signed [Radamel] Falcao and Daley Blind, while Danny Welbeck and Tom Cleverley had gone. It will change the dressing room dynamics but while we've got two good players going out, we've got two good players coming in. That's how football works, things move on. We must make sure we concentrate on welcoming the new lads and start winning games.

The manager gave us a couple of days off this week before we came back into training to get the legs going again, and then we had quite a tough session on Thursday. Sometimes the international breaks can come at the wrong time if you're on a roll but if you're having a little bad spell they can work in your favour in terms of regrouping.

The manager will want to get us all back together as soon as he can after the internationals are finished and make sure we're ready mentally and physically for the QPR game. That's our focus.