Nemanja Vidic has placed his long-term Manchester United future in doubt after making outspoken criticism of the weather in Manchester, the English way of life and by revealing that he would eventually like to play in Spain.

In a frank interview with a Russian football magazine, the Serbian defender said he was fed up with the climate in Manchester, adding that he had found it hard to adapt to life in England.

"I will never stay to live in England, that's for sure," Vidic said. "You get only a brief glimpse of sunlight before it's all cloudy again. The winters are mild, but in summer the temperatures seldom go higher than 20C. And it rains, rains, rains.

"In future, I would like to test myself in another top league. I'm thinking of Spain.

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"At least there will be no reason to complain about the weather. In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. Its main attraction is considered to be the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities."

Vidic, who joined the Old Trafford club from Spartak Moscow in January 2006, also criticised the English way of life.

"It's not only the weather that I'm not happy about here," he added. "In Russia and Serbia the people's way of life is similar. In England it's totally different. Here they just don't have time to feel the joy of life.

"Throughout the week they all work so hard. They only talk to people at lunch break. Then in the evening they come home and watch the telly, so they can get up early for work the next day.

"The only time to meet friends is at weekends, but for football players it's the busiest time of all. It was much easier for me to adapt to Russia than England. In England I had no one to talk to. The first month was especially hard. I lived alone in a hotel, which I left only for training. I thought I would go crazy inside those four walls."