Zlatan Ibrahimovic insists he is open minded about extending his stay at Manchester United.
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And when asked by Sky Sports about his future, the 35-year-old, he said: “Let’s see what happens”.
“I will not be somewhere only because I am Ibrahimovic”.
One would imagine that the club would take care to allow their young stars to progress considering the Paul Pogba fiasco in 2012, but perhaps this is not the case.
“I knew this situation with the yellow cards but I didn’t know at that time if the accumulation of yellow cards would bring a player to suspension”, he said.
“He was very happy that he was my first choice to come on to the pitch in a hard moment of the game for us after we conceded a goal”, he said on the eve of his first Premier League match in charge of United away to Bournemouth.
“Everything that we’re going through and will go through in the next few years, they’ve been there and done it and can tell us all about it”. Last year United finished 5 in the Barclays Premiere League and missed out the Champions League qualification.
The Red Devils have not won the title since Sir Alex Ferguson was in charge in the 2012-13 season.
Mourinho’s predecessor at Old Trafford, Louis van Gaal, was often accused of playing an excessively defensive game with emphasis on pragmatism rather than exciting, attacking football.
“They prefer to say or to hide or to play defensively with the words, that’s not our way”.
Jose Mourinho has warned Manchester United fans that his side may not start the season “like a train” because many of his players are lacking match fitness.
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The pair’s relationship was again in the spotlight after United’s 2-1 win over Leicester at Wembley, where Mourinho sent Mata on in the 63rd minute only to withdraw him in injury time – a rarity in top-level football and a blow to the ego for the player involved.
