Mourinho spoke to the media after Wayne Rooney’s testimonial on Wednesday night – which saw a drab 0-0 draw play out between United and Everton in a match that raised £5m for charity – and while he refused to directly talk about his move for Pogba, he did confirm that there will be one more addition to the squad before the transfer window closes. I don’t like to speak about other clubs or players from other clubs. I do not speak about the others. They want it to be a competition of two, three or four and, if possible, just a competition of one.
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Former Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon expects Paul Pogba to opt for Manchester United.
“I think our market was good”.
“Honestly, the market closes on August 31, but I think my club is trying to do everything to close our market before August 14”, he said.
Now, Mourinho is preparing to face off with Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri – ironically the last counterpart he faced in the Premier League when he was in charge of Chelsea prior to his departure in December – as United boss in Monday morning’s (AEST) Community Shield and he claims the Italian’s triumph could not have happened in Germany’s Bundesliga, Spain’s La Liga or Italy’s Serie A where the big teams actively weaken their title challengers in the transfer market.
Mourinho has signed Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Eric Bailly and Henrikh Mkhitaryan and has repeatedly stated his business would be done once he brought in a midfielder. The match not played against Man City was really bad for us.
“This is such a tough Premier League title race to try and call at this stage, but I think the title will be won by one of the two Manchester teams and that is simply because they are now being managed by the most successful managers the game has seen in recent years”. This is the profile of our market. “We are going to get a very good midfielder”, he added.
“You go to many countries and clearly they are happy the way they are”.
“Of course, we make mistakes and we are far from perfection, but they are giving everything to adapt, and step by step my team is going to be my team”.
“My teams are different to Mr Van Gaal, and it is a hard situation to change the dynamics”. It is also to go to the clubs that can be direct competition and every season steal their best players so they don’t want a league.
A ball has yet to be kicked in anger this Premier League season, but Jose Mourinho has wasted no time getting stuck into Arsene Wenger and Jurgen Klopp by branding them “not ethical”. You play Premier League on Sundays.
“Normally I like to work with 20 players plus the three goalkeepers which is what I have done for 15 years”.
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“But my experience has told me that, in these moments, when important decisions might need to be made, the players are lost in their own little worlds”.
