“That winning mentality is something that has been missing a little during the David Moyes and Louis van Gaal spells in charge and Mourinho, as a manager, is the ideal person to bring it back”. Let’s see if Pogba will also come, then it will be even more interesting.
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After the game, United manager Jose Mourinho insisted he would not be using any players in pre-season that won’t figure in his Premier League plans, including Bastian Schweinsteiger. “It’s a massive help to be with him every day and it’s great to see what he is like on and off the pitch”. It’s inconceivable to see Mourinho start without Ibrahimovic at Bournemouth in two weeks’ time, but in-between now and that curtain-raising fixture comes two more games against Everton and Leicester City, the latter in the Community Shield at Wembley. So with 60 matches we can not do it with 11 players. There is not a long time to work, not a long time to change, to implement new ideas, new principles. To be in this squad, you have to understand the squad is more important than any individual, the club is more important than all of us. We are going to play 60 matches and you can not do that with 11 players.
“He said come and play for me”. “There’s no need to rush into anything – I’m taking my time, taking it steady”.
Jose Mourinho looked pretty shocked when Bruma put Galatasaray ahead going into the half time break.
“It’s really important to get that first win together as a group, it’s great for us in the build-up to the season”, Rashford said. “The manager wasn’t concerned with United being 2-1 down at the break and just told us to push and close the space, something we did really well in the second half”, the England global said.
He was replaced at half-time as the Portuguese was full of praise for all other players who were involved in the game.
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Rashford played off the last defender and had his timing been better, he may have bagged two goals himself as he was caught offside twice when through on goal in acres of space.
