Reports carried in The Metro and elsewhere suggest that the only thing preventing an official announcement is a minor disagreement over who should pay the 20% owed to super agent Mino Raiola – a staggering £18.4m.
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Mourinho himself hinted that Pogba is indeed on United’s shortlist, but that the club have other targets in mind should they be unable to reach a deal for the 23-year-old.
“You have smoke, you have fire – you used to say something like that, right?”
“I can tell you we have four first-class players in Alves, Pjanic, Pjaca and Benatia”, Allegri said. “We don’t know what will happen in the course of the next week, but we’re confident”. It is also a big club, one with economic power to fight for their best players, to try and keep their best players. He is the club captain, he is the manager’s captain, he is the players’ captain. The market will be open until August 31 and sometimes things happen that you are not expecting and you have to react.
“So we are calm, we know the profile of player we want. We have options for that profile and we’re going to get a fourth player but maybe it’s not the one you think”.
Following United’s 4-1 defeat to Borussia Dortmund yesterday, Mourinho expressed his determination to sign a midfielder.
And, as far as needing centre forwards go, Scholes doesn’t care anymore that Mourinho has actually brought one of the best forwards to Old Trafford as he took aim once more at his former club. I had huge respect for (previosu United coach) Louis Van Gaal, but it did not work out the way people expected it to.
Jose Mourinho has added Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan to his attacking options for the forthcoming season and Scholes feels both men will have points to prove.
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“We have had a couple over the last three or four years, which is not the Manchester United style, who are used to a manager like Alex Ferguson being in there for so many years”.
