Jose Mourinho completed his first Premier League pre-match press conference as Manchester United manager and did not hesitate one bit in announcing that his aim for the club was to win the title.
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Mourinho deemed the Spaniard surplus to requirements at Chelsea, selling him to United, and raising doubts over the 28-year-old’s Old Trafford future.
Mourinho, who replaced van Gaal at Old Trafford in May, is a proven course and distance victor from his two spells at Chelsea, where he won the league three times.
With the options of Valencia and Matteo Darmian, it came as a surprise that Mourinho persisted with Valencia instead of Darmian, who is the specialist in that area.
Mourinho says that “we want to win competitions” as this is what United do and have been successful at for many years. We could also speak the same way. “They have the same manager and same players who came from the Championship together and didn’t change the way they play”.
“I saw them always as a winning team with an attacking philosophy, yes, but a winning team and the winning team needs to score more goals than they concede”.
“I don’t believe that I’m arrogant in the way people think”, he added.
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“Then the clubs they feel that you are not so sure about it”.
“You never know, it could be more than two [years], it could be more than three”, Ibrahimovic told reporters.
United boss Jose Mourinho admitted he did not know when signing Pogba that he would miss the season opener and only received confirmation on Wednesday. They prefer not to say.
Rashford also welcomed the arrival of Paul Pogba after the France global midfielder returned to Old Trafford from Juventus for a world-record transfer fee.
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“Mourinho wanted him, and for the fans it was important to see a player, who already knows the club and have grown up in their academy, return”. “So I forget Paul for a few days”.
