Mata is now on tour with the rest of the United squad in China and wants to stay and fight for his place in the team.
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“We’ve done a couple of weeks now and I’ve spoken to him a couple of times and obviously all the others players have talked as well”, he said.
OK, maybe I’m jumping the gun a little there, but eagle-eyed Twitter users reckon they’ve spotted Paul Pogba’s name on a tactics board in Mourinho’s office. Find us on Facebook too! “Hopefully we win both games and show the fans we are ready for the season and the major competitions”.
The Old Trafford club have undergone a transformation following the appointment of the Portuguese boss this summer, recruiting central defender Eric Bailly from Villarreal, attacking midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan and talismanic Swedish forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic to improve the team’s weak spine.
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And 30-year-old Rooney acknowledges that puts extra pressure on him.
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.
“It is hard for me and I play on the touchline”, Mourinho said.
“But we all get on really well”.
“They should be better suits by measure rather than going to a shop and just buying a size that may fit you well or not so well. The quality of the opposition is very high, so that will test us, and it’s a good chance to get to know the new signings and the manager”.
United, The Guardian reported, tabled an offer of £100 million ($131.3 million) for Pogba, with £13 million of that in add-ons.
It is now understood that United have settled on a fee of €110m for Pogba, which eclipses the previous record set when Real Madrid paid €100m for Gareth Bale in 2013.
United had the offer turned down on Tuesday, but have been told by the Italian champions that a world-record transfer fee in excess of £100m for the France midfielder would be accepted.
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