Zlatan Ibrahimovic netted a superb goal just four minutes into his Manchester United debut and promised there would be a lot more to come after they thrashed Turkish side Galatasaray 5-2 in a friendly in Gothenburg on Saturday. It looks very interesting.
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Antonio Valencia’s cross was met with an acrobatic overhead kick that bounced up off the turf to beat the Galatasaray goalkeeper Fernando Muslera high to his left.
Having one of the best players in the world and on the club encourage you to join him at the club has to be a compelling factor for Pogba. “I prefer Mourinho, in part because of Didier Drogba, who Mourinho worked with.I have played with Didier in the Ivory Coast, he is a friend and he told me, “Jose did this for me, Jose did that for me”.
“The squad is very competitive”.
“They are going to play 60 matches, so 60 matches can’t be done with 11 players”. He is tall, powerful and, on the training pitch, you can see he has a lot of quality.
“We have a game against Leicester next week (Community Shield) and we have the Premier League in a couple of weeks”.
Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford admits he is eager to get going with the new season and learn from new team-mate Zlatan Ibrahimovic. While on Sunday afternoon it was reported that the 32-year-old has been made train with United’s U-21 side, and had to remove his belongings from the first-team dressing room.
But Mourinho has strengthened his hand with the signing of Ibrahimovic.
‘It’s a massive help to be with him every day.
However, I do expect him to get plenty of game time this season.
Ibrahimovic responded in his inimitable way, saying “I admire Cantona and I heard what he said”. “There’s no need to rush into anything – I’m taking my time, taking it steady”.
The 34-year-old was handed the number nine shirt after arriving on a free transfer from Paris Saint-Germain to reunite with his former manager Jose Mourinho.
Rashford came off the bench at half-time in Sweden and won the penalty which was scored by captain Wayne Rooney and put United 3-2 up.
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“To win titles you have to improve and if we can do that then we have a great chance to win titles this season”.
