Mourinho has already made it clear that Rooney, will not play in a deep-lying midfield position like he did under former United boss, Louis van Gaal and former England manager, Roy Hodgson.
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I think it affects the intensity of the game, the pitch is also normally dry even if everybody makes an effort to make the best conditions and try to water before the game and half-time maybe.
Obviously this doesn’t mean that the deal is dead, but it does seem to suggest that there’s still a bigger way to go than the likes of L’Equipe have been suggesting.
Complicating matters for United and increasing their desire to tie up the transfer quickly is a potential bid from Real Madrid, whose French manager Zinedine Zidane is a confirmed admirer of Pogba.
“The way the crowd were with me, the cheers when I first had my first touch… you know that meant a lot to me”.
Dimitri Payet thinks that his France teammate Paul Pogba will be a major asset to whichever team he plays for regardless of how much he costs to buy. We have just 25% to do until 31 August.
“We’ve done a couple of weeks now and I’ve spoken to him a couple of times and obviously all the others players have talked as well”, he said.
Jose Mourinho insists he has two alternative targets should Manchester United fail to bring Juventus’ Paul Pogba back to Old Trafford this summer.
Ibrahimovic is still on holiday following Euro 2016, where his Sweden side failed to make it out of the group stage, and will not feature in the International Champions Cup matches against Borussia Dortmund and Manchester City. The body and mind is different.
‘I need to change the profile of the team in relation to other dynamics.
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“We know what the balance is and, I repeat, we are not going to be only focusing on one player. The striker is the easy one to finish the puzzle”.
