“I want to win the league for the first time with United, because I hadn’t won the league when I left”, he said.
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The France midfielder rejoined the Old Trafford team from Italian champions Juventus for a world record fee of 89 million pounds ($115.76 million) this week, signing a five-year contract with the club he left in 2012 for Serie A.
“We don’t [didn’t] have what I used to call the second midfield player”.
Pogba joins new boys Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Eric Bailly and Zlatan Ibrahimovic at United this summer. The Danish worldwide admitted that the 20-time English champions were a different club when he first arrived and suggested that it is a necessity to spend big to challenge for silverware.
And, given the character that is the “boy Jose”, his response was both swift and contemptuous, claiming Wenger, whom he had once described as being a “specialist in failure” and Klopp were “not ethical”. “All the managers that have more experience than me in England talk about that”. Wenger has been criticized by some footballing romantics for saying that qualifying for the Champions League is tantamount to winning a trophy, but few will argue this season.
Mourinho’s record in management, of course, is remarkably successful, and his ability to bring out the best in his new recruits at his previous clubs equally noteworthy.
Paul Pogba’s return to Manchester United has got a lot of people talking.
That’s promising for Manchester United, despite the Frenchman being behind his two future teammates Zlatan Ibrahimovic (seventh, 865,000 sales with PSG) and Wayne Rooney (sixth, 877,000 sales) and he’s still very far from Lionel Messi whose shirt is the most sold worldwide (1,958,000).
Mourinho told BT sport: “We have Michael Carrick, a 34 or 35-year-old-man”. So it’s a profile of a player that we found’. Hopefully, the winger’s return to the green and white of Celtic will revive a career which seemed destined for better things, other than being passed around by Manchester City, Swansea and latterly Aston Villa.
“They have a manager with personality and stature”.
Bryan Robson believes his former club Manchester United will challenge for the league title this season.
After making his move to Old Trafford, Mata heavily responded to Mourinho’s criticism by saying: “If a luxury player is a player who scores and assists and has good stats, then I’m happy to be a luxury player”.
Hmm, lost me on that one Paul, but maybe it had more to do with his former employer trying to squeeze the last penny from United’s purse.
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That does not lessen any embarrassment about the fact they let Pogba leave as a free agent four years ago – his grievances at the time relating to his lack of first-team opportunities and the relatively low pay on offer – and some awkward questions clearly remain now new information has emerged about United’s scouts encouraging the club to re-sign him within 12 months of his move to Juventus.
