Bastian Schweinsteiger and Adnan Januzaj were among the players overlooked for first-team training on Thursday and both are free to find new clubs.
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But Mourinho was adamant that each and every player remains a part of his plans for the forthcoming campaign.
“The squad is very competitive, the squad is very important for the season. He wants us to play with a lot of freedom, a lot of rotation in the forward positions, lots of opportunities to score goals, and I think I can do that, score the goals to help us be successful”, he said. So with 60 matches we can not do it with 11 players.
“So to be in this squad you have to realise the squad is more important than the individual”. His £400,000 per week pre-tax earnings will see him pocket £220,000 after deductions, costing United a total of £20.8m per season.
To be in partnership with the worlds greatest football club that is associated with legends like Yorke and many others who have played with such pride and passion itself is an achievement for me, said Ravi Chawla, Managing Director of Gulf Oil Lubricants India Limited.
“We lost a week in China and some of the boys that played today had trained two days”, he added. Van Persie had already made a name for himself at Arsenal and came to Old Trafford for £24 million and was an instant superstar scoring 26 goals in 35 games which made him the league top scorer for the second time in a row.
“When you play in that position all the time, your mindset is like that”.
‘We’re in a very good spot now, we think we can challenge for the Premier League, and we want to put a marker down, in the Community Shield with Leicester. I am happy with the mistakes we made, I’m really happy with the mistakes we made because you work on the mistakes, I’m really happy with the good things we did too, I’m happy with the spirit, I’m happy with the atmosphere.
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One Italian media outlet, “Calcio Mercato” is claiming that the record breaking transfer could be completed as soon as today, as Jose Mourinho is keen to get his full squad together soon, ahead of the new Premier League season.
