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No one is getting close to Jose Mourinho right now
The Manchester United boss is not in the happiest mood because the missed transfer goals this summer have left him lamenting the quality of his team.
Mourinho criticized his young players after receiving Saturday's 4-1 pre-season game from Liverpool to Michigan, and he's looking forward to picking up one, maybe two more before closing the window transfer.
But Mourinho getting snubbed by the players he wants to sign is not a novelty, as he has experienced throughout his career.
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Here is an XI who said no to the not so special …
John Ruddy (Chelsea, 2013)
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Well, it's not a glamorous start, but Mourinho has been blessed to arrive at clubs like Petr Cech, Iker Casillas and David De Gea in the past.
But in 2013, Ruddy, the Keeper of Norwich, refused his advances after a hit of 6 million In 1965, Ruddy told the Daily Express:
"I was lucky enough to leave Norwich and go to Chelsea (in the summer of 2013) but at this point in my career, I was really happy in Norwich, I was playing week after week, I was involved in the Team of England and I did not need to move.
"I thought my development was going well and I was not sure of that that the plan would have been for me in Chelsea or what would have looked like playing time. "
John Stones (Chelsea, 2015
Before what would become his last (half) season at Chelsea, Mourinho wanted to let off steam
His side aggressively attacked Everton stones, but the other Blues continued to push back their advances.
Then the boss of Everton, Roberto Martinez, told BBC Sport:
"It's not good to think that because you have a Champions League budget, you go click on your fingers and get everything you want.
"It is clear that we do not work like this."
Mats Hummels (Manchester United, 2016) [19659024] Hummels went to Bayern after leaving Dortmund
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In all fairness it was not really Mourinho's fault.
When he arrived at United at Summer 2016, the club was not in the Champions League, and it was key for them to be rejected by defender Borussia Dortmund Hummels, who chose to join Bayern Munich
The Manchester Evening News quoted him as saying:
"There was simply not a single English club where the overall package The global package means: a club that fascinates me; a club that I've always wanted to join, and where the sports constellation is right, and who of course plays football in the Champions League next season.
"And because of it, a club was ruled out, and you can imagine what club it was."
Raphael Varane (Manchester United, 2016)
(1965: 1111) The Real Madrid defender and winner of the Varane World Cup is another who denied United and their boss that same summer, opting instead to stay at the club where he is still today. [19659002AlwaysafterManchesterEveningNewsVaranReported:
"It's flattering, Manchester United is a very big club.It's not easy to say" no "to Jose Mourinho."
N & # 39; ; Golo Kante (Manchester United, 2016)
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] Kante was another player that Mourinho missed that same summer, with the French midfielder choosing a move to the former Portuguese club Chelsea after winning the league with Leicester in remarkable circumstances.
He later revealed that United boss had been in contact with him, saying, via the Manchester Evening News:
"It was amazing to see Mourinho calling me.
"I listened to his arguments about why I should go to United."
Steven Gerrard (Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid, various years)
Gerrard says that he refused the chance to play for Mourinho "five or six times" during his career, preferring to stay in Liverpool at every opportunity.
The Reds icon was the closest to moving to the Chelsea teams of Mourinho, and recounted an event in Belfast last year:
" It depends on how close the fence is!
"Of course, there was a lot of speculation around 2004 /2005.
" He tried to sign me probably five or six times during my career.
"Twice at Chelsea, he tried to sign me at Inter Milan and Real Madrid too.
" I could have go play for him in different teams but I have never done it. "
Willian (Manchester United, 2017)
This one could still happen, but for now, Willian resists joining his former boss of Chelsea at Old Trafford
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"He I like it a lot and I like it a lot as a coach and as a person, he trusted me and my job, and I am very grateful to him. [19659002] "Manchester came to me, they talked with my agent, but nothing happened, because Chelsea would not negotiate me and I'm very happy in Chelsea."
Wayne Rooney (Chelsea, 2013)
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Mourinho called Rooney to take a decisive step and to try a He was forced to move from Manchester United to Chelsea in 2013, but the United striker had to stay at Old Trafford.
After a goalless draw between the two teams at the start of the 2013/14 season, Chelsea boss told the Guardian:
"The person who started the story must finish history.
"A club like us, a manager like me, people who work in the club with me … we are not stupid to try d & # To get a player from a big club who does not sell what he does "I do not want to sell
" We are not stupid to try any something if someone did not start it. So I think it's time for everyone's good to finish the story. From one side, from the other side.
Antoine Griezmann (Manchester United, 2017)
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The apple of many last summer, Griezmann has chose to stay with Atletico despite the interest of Old Trafford
He insists that he did not contact Mourinho to tell him directly that he snubbed him anyway, saying to FourFourTwo:
"It was my decision. I communicated it to the club. That's all.
"I stayed mainly because of the transfer ban Atletico needed me now more than ever and I felt that I had to stay in. It would be dirty to leave. I would not have been myself, or the person I feel today, if I had left this club this way. "
Alvaro Morata (Manchester United, 2017)
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For weeks last summer, it seemed like Morata was destined for United, only for that # 39, he finds himself in Chelsea.
Mourinho revealed his frustrations to The Independent:
"The sales club is the one that puts the price on the player, not the club of purchase.If a club wants to buy our players, we set the price.
"Morata is a Real Madrid player, Madrid made a decision and we did not agree with them, it was simple, it's a pity.
"This is a player who was part of the first team with me, we have a particular liking for him, it's a special one, I'm I liked seeing its growth at Juventus and Madrid.]
"It's like that. I do not think he can finish with us.
Gareth Bale (Manchester United, 2017)
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This is another that could still of course, but the departures Zinedine Zidane and Cristiano Ronaldo at Bernabeu seem to make it much less likely.
Last summer however, Mourinho revealed how eager he was to sign the Welsh, recounting The Guardian:
"If it's not in the club's plans and what you're writing is true, that the arrival of another player while Gareth is leaving Real Madrid" I would try to wait for him on the other side and fight with other coaches who would like to have him on their team. "
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