Apparently Paul Pogba is Jose Mourinho’s top target this summer and Manchester United vice-chairman Ed Woodward will leave no stones unturned to bag their man. It is not black or white, I give him options.
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“With Jose leaving Chelsea and now coming back into the Premier League with United, for me it is a great move”, said Beckham.
“From my side, not just as a friend but my side as Man United manager, the only thing I can promise is that I am going to try to support him the best way, prepare the players for him, try to have the English players always available in a good condition to help him”.
“Not a yellow card, not a red card, not an offensive word”.
“I hope you can do the same because it’s your time”.
Shaw is stepping up that return to fitness in China, with a friendly against Manchester City in Beijing following Friday’s encounter with Borussia Dortmund in Shanghai.
“We have 38 matches in the Premier League, we expect to play a lot of them in the Europa League and domestic cups so in a squad of, let’s say, 22 players, there will be a space for everyone”.
“What I love about this group of managers is the character of them”.
“We know Pogba, he is a player who proved to be very strong and, for a while, Barcelona were interested, but clearly the dynamics changed and once the figures reached a certain point, we were no longer interested”.
“But in my club we are not going to have that”. My indicators are my family and my players, who I treat like my children.
“We try to do suits by measure that are flawless for the person and the way I’m building the team is more important for me with the players from other positions than the one I think who is going to play as the striker”.
But if United fans need any reassurances as to where Mourinho’s loyalties lie, the 53-year-old reluctantly smiled before rejecting the opportunity to sign his name on a Chelsea shirt. “I want the best for my footballers, and that therefore means also for Pogba”. “I’m not going to hide behind three bad seasons, three bad championships, behind two seasons not even without the fourth [place]”. I’m not going to hide behind that.
“I’m not going to hide also in that fourth is the target and everything better than fourth is unbelievable for us”.
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“With Jose in there, he knows what he wants and how to get it, he knows how to win titles”, he said. “I can not tell … we are in a great position to do what I consider will be a great market for us”. That would be fantastic, to be champion in every club would be incredible, but that’s an individual, selfish perspective that I don’t want.
