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Telles: The two languages that unite United

Alex Telles, too. The left-back, who celebrates his 29th birthday today, has been in fine form, and has further bolstered the ranks of Portuguese and Brazilian first-teamers.

But the multilingual make-up of our dressing room has long intrigued fans, arguably since the days of an unlikely alliance between Patrice Evra (France), Ji-sung Park (South Korea) and Carlos Tevez (Argentina).

How does Manchester-born Marcus Rashford converse with Belo Horizonte's Fred, for instance? What words does our new German interim manager Ralf Rangnick use to get his point across to the Ivorian Eric Bailly?

Well, in a recent interview for Inside United, the club's official magazine, Telles opened up on just how the dressing room functions on the language front.