Mourinho, the new United manager, worked with Varane during his three-year spell at the Bernabeu from 2010 through 2013, promoting him to the first-team. So I expect to see two teams in different moments of their preparation, but it is good for us because it is more of a challenge. He is the club captain, he is the manager’s captain, he is the players’ captain. I don’t think we’re going to have a problem at that level.
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“He knows that he has to work hard, he knows that but I think that is nothing new in his career”.
“It wasn’t too much the pain because I could deal with that at that point but, yeah, there was a fear of how long it was going to take or even if I was going to get back playing football”.
The Spanish midfielder was offloaded by the Portuguese from Chelsea to United in January 2014 with plenty of reports ever since suggesting he was forced out. “I think he is a good choice but I think he needs support”, Mourinho told reporters on Thursday.
“We sold him to Man Utd and done”.
“We are calm. We know the kind of players we want”.
The 23-year-old Paul Pogba will not get you the goals of a Ronaldo or Messi but he is a phenomenally gifted creative midfielder and while people will wonder how a professional football player can be worth more than double the fee reportedly being paid for the Chinese takeover of Wolves, these fees have nearly become normal for the best players in the world.
The club then also offered the opportunity for fans to leave a welcome message for Gomes.
“We were not with this old-fashioned idea of “I don’t sell players to my direct competitors inside of my own country”.
“My board did a fantastic work to do 75 percent of the job I asked”.
“We don’t know what will happen in the course of the next week, but we’re confident”.
“But again until the 31st of August the market is open for every one of my players that is not happy”. I don’t think it’s possible, times change.
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“I’m really looking forward to working with him (Mourinho)”. In the season that he Premier League starts to flex it’s huge financial muscle due in part to astonishingly lucrative television rights it does seem nearly inevitable that the mantle of “world’s most expensive player” will move from Madrid to Manchester.
