Veteran Swedish star Zlatan Ibrahimovic said he is delighted his compatriots will get to see the moment “everyone has been waiting for”, namely his debut for new club Manchester United in his homeland on Saturday.
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The 23-year-old is seemingly set to return to Old Trafford, with United prepared to pay a world record figure fee of around £100million to land him.
Mourinho has already begun rebuilding at United, having signed defender Eric Bailly and midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan as well as Ibrahimovic and, according to media reports, is nearing the capture of Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba.
Former Manchester City manager Sven-Goran Eriksson’s fancies Manchester United’s chances of winning the Premier League with Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Jose Mourinho together again. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.theeagleonline.com.ng as the source.
Those claims came as no surprise: it is no secret, as we reported on the 17th July, Manchester United have been in ongoing talks with AS Monaco over the possible transfer for the Brazilian global for some time.
Mourinho was brought in after the end of last season following the sacking of Louis van Gaal. Back in 2012, Ferguson and Pogba’s agent, Mino Raiola, clashed over a potential new contract for the Frenchman and he left for just £800,000.
The question now is how will Pogba slot into United’s starting 4-2-3-1 line-up? Matuidi may be 29 years old, but he is certainly not one-fifth the player that Paul Pogba is.
The only drawback to Matuidi, from a Manchester United, excuse me, Mourinho United, standpoint, is that he isn’t the big name signing that will wow everyone.
“I believe in working hard”, he said.
“Its a game between Italy press and United Kingdom press who announce it first and who is worse”.
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With a trophy haul including 3 EPL titles, an FA Cup, and 3 League Cups, Mourinho knows how to win in England.
