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I am not concerned about the club failing to sign Paul Pogba-Jose Mourinho

2 months ago  tobi   Sport News

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho insists that the club are not merely focusing on one player amid intense speculation regarding their bid for Paul Pogba.

 
Goal understands that Juventus have demanded €120 million for the France international, with the Italian champions eager to hold on to the former Red Devils youngster.
 
Mourinho has previously claimed that he is "confident" a deal can be wrapped up, but he has now claimed that the club have a number of targets, rather than focusing their energies on a sole deal.
 
"We set four targets for us, we got three of them and we are going to get the fourth," Mourinho told reporters, having brought in Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Eric Bailly. 
 
"We established the profile of four players to improve the squad, to give us more options, especially adapted to my way of thinking about football.
 
"Everybody speaks about one, but it wouldn't be a surprise for me if it is not him and it is another one because we went for profile.
 
"We have two more options in front of us and we are going to close one."
 
 
On Pogba, the 53-year-old added: "I am not going to try to make you naive and believe that we are not trying for one player.
 
"You have smoke, you have fire - you used to say something like that, right? 
 
"First of all, we know the player belongs to another club, which is not a small club. It is also a big club, one with economic power to fight for their best players, to try and keep their best players.
 
"Apart from that, we know other clubs are also involved and for us it is not, 'are we going to win the race or lose the race?' It is not a race, it is just the market.
 
"When you go to the market, you have other options. You cannot focus on one, so we are in a very comfortable situation."
 
  • Mourinho and Co. are in China as they prepare for their International Champions Cup clash with Borussia Dortmund on Friday, before facing local rivals Manchester City on Monday.