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Mourinho: Man Utd MUST go for title

“I don’t speak about suspended or injured players”.

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“Turning down a challenge does not exist in my world”.

Whether he has learnt the lessons of what went wrong at Chelsea remains to be seen, but the journey should be fascinating. Hopefully I can do the same here.

“We know that others have the same ambitions as us”. It has been tough being a Manchester United fan for the past two years.

“People have the image of me that I’m a bad boy, I’m this and I’m that”, he said.

“That’s the big difference. That’s something I believe is an individual strength in the human being”. “I’m confident, I believe in myself, that’s not being arrogant”. I am not pretending to be flawless.

But what does the Special One think of the club’s transfer activity? I think he will probably play. This also means that he has the potential to be an even bigger star than he already is. I saw the way they were behaving, how professional they were, how they were eating. You can in condition to win the match but not at the highest intensity. “Then you become one of them”.

Mourinho admitted to being unsure when signing Paul Pogba for £93.2m on Tuesday if he would be suspended for Sunday’s trip to Bournemouth, as the Football Association announced on Friday. But at Man United Football Club you can not say differently, we have to fight for the title.

These teams met on the final day last season, with United winning 3-1. But I think Diego can improve a lot. I watched Man United play many, many times. Watching the football they played under Louis van Gaal, it wasn’t a typical Manchester United team and he didn’t play the Manchester United way. That ended 0-0 and was slightly concerning for United as Everton is thought to be a team that they should definitely be defeated if they realistically want to be winning the league.

“We feel we are candidates for the title”. They prefer to say or to hide or to play defensively with the words. “That is not our way”.

Manchester City appear the strongest rivals to the Red Devils with Mourinho’s former rival Pep Guardiola at the helm.

Asked how Mourinho plans to end the frustration endured by United fans in recent years, he said: “Professionalism”.

“That’s why he is on loan at a Premier League club”.

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Allegri, under whom he played for two years, insists that the financial figures involved in the deal are “enormous” but given the kind of football he played over the last few years, the sum is justified. It’s a very hard match for us but we are in condition to win it but not at the highest intensity.

Paul Pogba trained with his Manchester United team-mates on Friday