Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has revealed the players he will miss during their league opener tie against Leicester City.
Mourinho has pointed out that Anthony Martial will probably not start after missing the pre-season tour to attend the birth of his son. Paul Pogba and the players that participated in the World Cup tournament will also miss but the boss would rather have them on the bench than the youngsters. The Reds will welcome Leicester at Old Trafford on Friday night.
“Nine days of pre-season where no training, no football, absolutely nothing [because he left the tour to attend the birth of his second child]. He’s in the group of players who didn’t have a pre-season, it’s as simple as that. You try to make a case and there is no case on it. For nine days he didn’t train. so he’s to start again.” the Portuguese said on Martial.
Mourinho, who has been on record criticising some of his senior players came out strong to defend his relationship with them adding that he is ready to work with them to achieve the best result at the end of the season.
“When you repeat 1000 times that my relationship with my players is not good, a lie repeated 1000 times is still a lie. I like my players and my group. I enjoyed last season, the fight to finish where we finished and to manage the best position this club has had in five years. I’m going to enjoy this season.” Mou said in defense of the situation within the team.
On Pogba, the boss says he will have a chat with him to see if he is ready for action after arriving late from post World Cup break.
“My perception of the situation? He arrived Monday, happy, proud, a desire to work. He worked amazingly well Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and he’s one of the players that I have to speak to see how, physically and mentally, he feels,” the tactician said.
“But it’s the same conversation as with [Ashley] Young, [Marouane] Fellaini, [Jesse] Lingard (Who were also involved in the World Cup until its final weekend). It’s the same. To know how they feel physically, mentally — to try to give us a help [from the start of the season]. If they feel they can help us, 20 minutes, 10 minutes, half an hour. We don’t have many solutions and want to go with everything we have” he concluded in his pre-match press conference.
Manchester United have won more trophies than any other club in English football, with a record 20 League titles, 12 FA Cups, 5 League Cups and a record 21 FA Community Shields. United have also won three UEFA Champions Leagues, one UEFA Europa League, one UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, one Intercontinental Cup and one FIFA Club World Cup. In 1998–99, the club became the first in the history of English football to achieve the treble of the Premier League, the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League.[5] By winning the UEFA Europa League in 2016–17, they became one of five clubs to have won all three main UEFA club competitions, and the only English club to have won every ongoing top-flight honour available to them.
The 1958 Munich air disaster claimed the lives of eight players. In 1968, under the management of Matt Busby, Manchester United became the first English football club to win the European Cup. Alex Ferguson won 38 trophies as manager, including 13 Premier League titles, 5 FA Cups and 2 UEFA Champions Leagues, between 1986 and 2013, when he announced his retirement. José Mourinho is the club’s current manager, having been appointed on 27 May 2016.
Manchester United was the highest-earning football club in the world for 2016–17, with an annual revenue of €676.3 million, and the world’s most valuable football club in 2018, valued at £3.1 billion. As of June 2015, it is the world’s most valuable football brand, estimated to be worth $1.2 billion.After being floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1991, the club was purchased by Malcolm Glazer in May 2005 in a deal valuing the club at almost £800 million, after which the company was taken private again, before going public once more in August 2012, when they made an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. Manchester United is one of the most widely supported football clubs in the world, and has rivalries with Liverpool, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Leeds United.