Zlatan Ibrahimovic is not heading to China on Manchester United’s pre-season tour.
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“So we’re practising that in training sessions and hopefully we can take that into games and show a very strong side”.
“I never left him out of my selection, out of the 18, but he was on the bench a few times and we had a proposal from a big club like United”.
“I am really confident (executive vice-chairman Ed) Woodward and the owners can get the profile of the player I think the squad needs”.
“I think he’s the right person for that, yes”. But we know first of all that the player belongs to another club, which is not a small club.
“We were always a club – and are still a club – that when teams come to Old Trafford, they know they are going to be up against it and they know they are probably going to lose. It is not a race, it is just the market”.
Daley Blind, who featured in central defence for the vast majority of last season, is expected to be deployed in a midfield role as Phil Jones returns to defence next to the fit-again Luke Shaw.
“Before the face, we have the profile”. We are at Manchester United so there’s obviously going to be people coming in your position. We established the profile of four players to improve the squad, to give us more options, especially adapted to my way of thinking about football.
“This was Formula One against Formula Three, they are much sharper”.
Wayne Rooney of Manchester United at Shanghai Stadium, China, July 21.
“I am quite surprised with so many question marks around this guy”, the United boss said at the team hotel in Shanghai.
Real Madrid are the only other club the player could join, although the Spanish club’s manager, Zinedine Zidane, admitted earlier this week that he is happy with his current squad. I’ve spoken to him.
Per Whoscored.com, the 20-year-old Frenchman was the Red Devils’ highest-rated full-time player with a 7.23 rating, and they will surely want to keep the Martial in the side going forward.
“There are different tours”, said Mourinho.
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“(It was) not a fear but when I first did it, the first thoughts that went through my head were ‘am I going to play football again?’ or ‘how long am I going to be out for?'”, Shaw said. So I always had that good feeling and I think the fans feel the same.
