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Jose Mourinho talks with ESPN FC about Manchester United's transfer needs, expectations for Alexis Sanchez, his love for LA and more.
José Mourinho told ESPN FC that the World Cup was the perfect habitat for Paul Pogba because he could "only think of football".
LOS ANGELES – Jose Mourinho suggested that Manchester United does not have the team to win the Premier League title by refusing to answer questions about his team's chances.
The Portuguese coach signed Fred, Diogo Dalot and Lee Grant in the summer, while he seeks to bridge the gap with the Manchester City champions
He wants to sign two more players before the transfer deadline, but admitted that this may not happen
. "I do not answer your question," said the United manager before denying a request for drafting.
Mourinho was also asked to develop an ESPN. The FC interview he was giving on Monday suggested that Paul Pogba needed to focus more on his football if he was hoping to recreate his World Cup form for France at Old Trafford
. chance to comment.
"I have already said it," he replied when asked what it would take for him to be happy with the midfielder.
Pogba is one of the 11 senior players who are not in the United States. Marcus Rashford, Jesse Lingard, Marouane Fellaini and Romelu Lukaku are likely to miss the start of the season after reaching the semi-finals and Mourinho confesses to worry before their first clashes against Leicester and Brighton.
"The first game of the season is against Leicester and the second is against Brighton and I look at Leicester, if I'm not mistaken, only [Harry] Maguire and [Jamie] Vardy were in the World Cup in the final phase, because [Kasper] Schmeichel was back earlier, so I think that a team working for six weeks minimum with all players except a defender and an attacker who can join the last weekend and probably be available, is clear much better situation for
"When I think of Brighton, I do not think that there is a player who does not do a very good pre-season with a lot of training and of matches. "19659002" So, against Leicester and Brighton, the situation is not incredible for us, I would say third match, play against a team in a situation similar to that of us, after three weeks, that is, is almost as if you needed to a pre-season with them but for the first two games we have to fight for points, that's what we will do with the available players. "
The Mourinho team will be strengthened this week with the arrivals of Fred and David De Gea.Nemanja Matic has already started training after arriving in the United States on Saturday
." Mourinho still does not know if Marcos Rojo will fly to America after the early exit of Argentina to Russia because the defender is injured.
: "I do not know, he is to the medical service, in touch since the World Cup, where he had the World Cup with a physical problem and the medical department must make the decision [the] whether he joins us here or whether he is going in Manchester to recover and wait until the team is back. "
Source: espn.co.uk
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