“I think probably the other players are surprised”, said Mourinho, who was speaking exclusively to BT Sport.
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The transfer for the former United youngster, which, at an eye-watering £98.3m, amounted to essentially the most expensive buyback clause in history, has been roundly derided by most outside of northwest England as gross overestimation of value and a sign of an expanding Galactico-zation of football that had formerly been limited to the La Liga shores.
Last Friday United manager Mourinho branded his Arsenal counterpart Wenger and Liverpool boss Klopp “not ethical” after they questioned the fee the Red Devils were reportedly set to splash out on bringing midfielder Pogba back from Juventus.
The Portuguese coach is now preparing for his first season in charge at Old Trafford following his arrival at the club back in May.
“Pogba is a great player who has got an unbelievable potential”, Altafini told Omnisport.
“Not with his quality, because the quality everybody knows”. He is the guy capable to go to the kitman and say “please give a towel to God” and then laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh and laugh.
“He is brilliant with the young boys”, he insisted.
Image rights, tax matters and contract specifics are all areas that Woodward and his team have become familiar with over the past three years as he looks to reshape United.
“I want us to be hated again, I want people to be hating Man United. We couldn’t find a better striker than him to give us the stability we need”.
“They work hard to be in the match and they aren’t, and this is going to happen in the next two or three weeks because we have just one Premier League match”.
It is the first time since now Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane joined the Spanish giant as a player in 2000 from Juventus that Madrid haven’t got their hands on the world’s most expensive player having also bagged Cristiano Ronaldo from United in 2009 for a record fee. There are a certain numbers of clubs that make it not a Champions League without these clubs.
“I don’t think he will take anything less, he will be ruthless with the team, ruthless within the club and maybe that is what United needed”. “I’m happy, just happy”.
Klopp had expressed his disdain for the nauseatingly-drawn out transfer a few days prior when the move was still a “rumor”, commenting, “The day that this is football, I’m not in a job anymore, because the game is about playing together”.
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Watch the full interview with Jose Mourinho on BT Sport 1 from 10pm on Wednesday.
