“I think it’s more hard now, especially because preseasons are shorter and preseasons are less about football and more other areas”, he said in a thinly veiled critique of the Far East trip.
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Just months after leading Chelsea to his third English title, Mourinho went into meltdown, squabbling with the club’s then doctor in a damaging dispute over an injury to Eden Hazard, railing against perceived injustices from referees and the FA and eventually losing the support of his players.
Mourinho’s arrival, alongside £89 million world record signing Paul Pogba, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Eric Bailly and Mkhitaryan has seen expectations around United rocket. I watched Manchester United play many, many times. I don’t think that’s Manchester United.
“I saw them always as a winning team with an attacking philosophy, yes, but a winning team and the winning team needs to score more goals than they concede”.
“I played Real Madrid-Manchester United in Madrid and they crossed the midfield line twice with Wayne Rooney played outside-left to defend my right-back”. I don’t know the word but they find it hard to decide, they are nearly decided and then you come with another idea.
“What is interesting to see is that today, you have a local business and you just want to survive or you have a world business and the money comes in, whether it is Google, Facebook, football or any other sport, they are worldwide so you can’t set any limitations in the income”.
England’s elite have spent big in the hope of usurping champions Leicester City and nowhere will the battle be more intense than between Manchester City manager Guardiola and his Manchester United counterpart Mourinho. I don’t know the word but they find it hard to decide, they are nearly decided and then you come with another idea.
The Red Devils ace only joined the club earlier this summer, though is surely entering the autumn of his glittering career.
“I want to go into the Premier League, day one, with 33 training sessions and half of these players are not here because the players I started with are the players that are going on loan, other players are going to the under-21 team and the under-18 team”.
“I was not working since December”.
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“The targets were there on the table, after that was the club power and they were very strong, they were very good and they did everything before August 14”, he said.
