The 77-year-old has also admitted he never realised how good the 34-year-old centre-forward was in the air until his two superb headed goals in a United shirt.
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“You can see tonight we can improve but we are winning games and we still have a lot to improve on”, he added.
With Allardyce cancelling plans to hold a friendly before the Slovakia date, it means Shaw will only be asked to play one game for England and that will boost his prospects of Mourinho allowing him to go.
They chanted in tribute to Ibrahimovic who scored the first goal from a header then added a second from a penalty, and the former Paris Saint-Germain striker said: “The supporters at United are incredible and I have this feeling in every game that I’ve played that they are the 12th player on the field”. He is not going to do that.
He said: “We spoke like two weeks ago about it so there was no confusion”.
Before Friday night’s 2-0 home win against Southampton, Mourinho had called on home fans to restore the fear factor at Old Trafford.
Jones’ situation at United would get even more hard if the reports about Mourinho’s interest in Southampton centre-back Jose Fonte are true. Two among them are marquee signing for the club.
It is early days, but you can not in any way slate the start of Ibrahimovic’s Manchester United career – the club lacked an out-and-out goal scorer and he is seemingly the clubs answer. “And, as long as I feel I can develop, I’m happy”. Well, one would think that the marquee signing, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and Paul Pogba will be the natural first team players for the club but then he would be wrong. Furthermore, it does not only help the younger members of the squad in terms of learning, it gives them competition for places and it also gives Mourinho different options.
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“Wayne and Paul told themselves ‘Zlatan, when a penalty comes you are the first”.
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