Shaw: Injury Does Not Faze Me

England defender Luke Shaw says he doesn't want to be known as the "left-back who broke his leg" and is determined to win silverware with both the Three Lions and Manchester United.

Shaw was ruled out for almost a year last September after suffering a double leg break against PSV in the Champions League.

The 21-year-old returned from injury for the start of the new season and earned a call up to the England squad for Sunday's World Cup qualifier against Slovakia, after impressing for his club side.

And the highly-rated full-back says he now wants to be known for his success on the pitch, rather than his horrific injury.

"Of course I don't want people to know me as the left-back who broke his leg when he was young," he said.

"I want to be winning trophies, not just with United but with England as well.

"I want them to know me for how I play on the pitch and for how many trophies I hopefully win."

Despite the seriousness of his injury, Shaw is happy to talk about the incident and insists he has no problem watching it back.

"I don't mind answering questions about my leg. I think sometimes people don't like talking about it, but I'm not bothered," he said.

"I wasn't bothered watching videos of it or pictures of my leg. That might sound a bit weird but I feel comfortable talking about it because now I feel stronger than ever.

"At first I did start thinking 'am I really like this?' But it's my leg at the end of the day.

"Obviously I went through a bad time during the leg break but I came through that stronger as a person. Now it does not faze me."

Shaw had originally targeted that start of Euro 2016 as a possible return date from injury.

However, after it became apparent he would not recover in time to be included in Roy Hodgson's squad, Shaw accepted he would miss the tournament in France.

"It's a Euros and it's obviously a massive thing for me but I did give up towards about a month left," he said.

"That's the best decision I could have made. I wish I was there, but I look back at it now as a good decision I didn't go."

Shaw made his long-awaited return for United at the start of the Premier League under new boss Jose Mourinho.

Shaw turned down the opportunity to sign for Mourinho at Chelsea but the full-back insists the Portuguese holds no grudges against him for his decision to join United instead.

"He had a joke at me about it but there are no hard feelings," said the former Southampton full-back. "It wasn't even a talk we had to have, to clear the air or anything.

"I just thought that at that point in my career, I had a better chance of playing at Manchester United. Patrice Evra was leaving and Jose, at that time, had a solid back four that I knew he liked. So, even though Chelsea were much closer to my home, I felt United were the better choice for me.

"I was never focused on the money side at that point. It wasn't to do with wages, it was about football."

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