Jose Mourinho blasts Klopp and Wenger over Pogba

Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho says criticisms from his Arsenal and Liverpool counterparts Arsene Wenger and Jurgen Klopp are “not ethical”.

United have since swooped to sign Eric Bailly, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan while they continue to negotiate a world-record £100m deal with Juventus to sign Paul Pogba four years after allowing him to leave for Turin.

“I think you are getting one of the best midfield players in the world”, Neville was quoted as saying by Sky Sports on Wednesday. All the Portuguese manager was waiting for was one more player, and now he has got it.

“They are things that when I do are not ethical, when others do it, everything is normal”, said Mourinho. “The chairman told me we want to keep everybody”, said Ranieri. Now we have Leicester before the Premier League and it is not a training session against another team – it is a game.

“But the reality is I don’t speak about the others, they can do what they want”. ‘He made comments about us but I don’t comment about him.

But I speak to Paul, and he’s all about football, not money. Our transfer market was good. We bought a creative player, we know the quality he has.

Pogba’s pending transfer is expected to be completed next week, but speaking ahead of Manchester United’s FA Community Shield fixture against Leicester on Sunday, Mourinho described rival managers talking openly about Manchester United as “unethical”.

Mourinho confirmed that United would be signing a “very good midfield player” on Friday, and hinted that it would indeed be Pogba.

“The market closes on 31 August and we are trying to do everything to close the market as quickly as possible, before 14 August”.

Nani’s compatriot Mourinho is preparing for his first season in charge at United and the Valencia winger is intrigued to see how he will fare. “This is the profile of our market”.

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“Normally you are going to play the Premier League on the Sunday so I made the decision to be with 23 players plus three goalkeepers which I think is still a lot and I had to make my decisions”. “Of course, we are going to try to win it”. “The others it is their problem”. We have 22 players now and we will have 23. You can play 15 matches, you play on the Thursday, you have a big risk and travel a lot. It’s a hard situation to change the dynamics. I had to make my decisions.