Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho questions lack of signings and demands two more new faces
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JOSE MOURINHO has asked Manchester United’s hierarchy: Where are my summer signings?
The Old Trafford boss let rip at his below-par stars after a 4-1 thrashing by Liverpool yesterday.
He demanded his missing World Cup stars return early from their hols.
Jose fumed: “I would like to have two more players. I think I am not going to have two, it is possible I’m going to have one.
“I gave a list to my club of five names a few months ago and I wait to see if it’s possible to have one of these players.
“If it is not possible we keep fighting and working and believing in the players that we have.”
United have signed £52m Fred from Shakhtar Donetsk, £19m Diogo Dalot from Porto and Stoke’s second-choice keeper Lee Grant.
A move for Leicester’s Harry Maguire stalled while Mourinho wants Inter ace Ivan Perisic, Chelsea’s Willian and Barcelona’s Yerry Mina before the window shuts in ten days.
Tottenham’s Toby Alderweireld, Real Madrid’s Raphael Varane, Bayern Munich’s Jerome Boateng and Inter’s Milan Skriniar have also been linked.
And Mourinho called on his players, including World Cup-winner Paul Pogba, to return early from breaks.
The Portuguese said: “I hope somebody wants to do what Marcus Rashford and Phil Jones decided to do, which is to be back a little bit earlier to try to help the team because for the beginning of the season we are going to be in trouble.”
United’s injury list has grown with Nemanja Matic out for the Prem kick-off.
The Serbian midfielder has now had surgery for an unspecified injury.
Mourinho said: “He came from the World Cup with an injury and the time he had to rest in the holiday was not enough to resolve the problem.
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“He went to Philadelphia to see a top world specialist in relation to these kind of injuries and he didn’t leave the clinic, he had immediate surgery not to lose more time.”
The United chief was also unhappy striker Anthony Martial did not return after the birth of his son.
And he could not hide his disappointment at the US trip, with many criticising the fact that Prem clubs have left stars at home after the World Cup.
Mourinho blasted: “I wouldn’t spend my money to see these teams.”