LONDON: Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho says he is confident that the club will sign at least one more player before the Premier League’s transfer window closes on Aug. 9. The Portuguese boss expressed his hopes of signing two new recruits after United’s 4-1 defeat by Liverpool in the pre-season International Champions Cup last weekend in the United States but now says one addition seems more probable. “I am confident I will get one, but I think two I am not going to get which is not a drama,” Mourinho told beIN SPORTS. “In every pre-season it happens the same with every club which is the manager wants more. “It’s our nature, you always want more for your team but then club decisions are different and normally you don’t get what you want which happened during all my career. “So if I get one player until the end of the market, that’s fine.” United have struggled to impress in pre-season with a patchy squad that has been depleted through injuries and key players resting after the World Cup in Russia. Their sole pre-season win came against AC Milan last week. The club’s inconsistent performances has led Mourinho to express his frustration on multiple occasions throughout the U.S. tour, including criticising individual players and United’s lack of transfer activity. Goalkeeper Lee Grant, however, has dismissed the notion that Mourinho is unhappy with the squad. United play Champions League holders Real Madrid and German champions Bayern Munich in their next two friendlies before hosting Leicester City in the opening league fixture on Aug. 10.
Published in Daily Times, August 1st 2018.
Child sexual exploitation, the ugly reality no one wants to acknowledge, is deeply ingrained in…
Bad blood-related news comes from Balochistan almost every other day. And the attack on a…
Donald Trump's victory as the President of the United States has raised numerous new questions…
The International Cricket Council (ICC) finds itself entangled in an unwarranted controversy sparked by India's…
Leave a Comment