Jose Mourinho already made his thoughts clear on Manchester United's current transfer policy when he hit out at Pep Guardiola and Manchester City during his time at Old Trafford
Manchester United’s transfer strategy wouldn’t sit well with Jose Mourinho, judging by previous comments from the former Old Trafford boss. It’s clear for all to see that Ruben Amorim’s squad needs a major overhaul following a desperate season, which culminated in the Europa League final defeat to Tottenham Hotspur.
United have already landed Matheus Cunha from Wolves, while talks are ongoing with Brentford about signing Bryan Mbeumo. Despite a savage round of cost-cutting off the pitch, United could spend big on it, having also been linked with Sporting CP striker Victor Gyokeres and Aston Villa keeper Emi Martinez, among numerous other players.
United are looking to repair the damage done by a succession of expensive mistakes in the transfer market, with Amorim happy to move on the likes of Jadon Sancho, Antony, Rasmus Hojlund, Joshua Zirkzee and Andre Onana if possible and replace them with new blood.
It’s an approach not dissimilar to the one employed by Pep Guardiola at Manchester City while Mourinho was in charge of United. Mourinho took a shot at Guardiola after City spent more than £200million on defenders in the summer of 2017 as part of a wider spending spree at the Etihad.
United spent big too that summer, almost £150m, but Mourinho insisted they couldn’t compete with City’s perceived ability to replace one expensive signing with another. He told United's website at the time: "You think the club can put here now £600million and let's buy six players of £100m? The club cannot do that.
"I cannot expect the club to do that, so it's not critical and you can see how the market is, especially with the top teams. But, you know, without taking any credit away from Manchester City and Pep and his staff and the players, they obviously have lots of credit in what they are doing.
“But Pep arrives, he has the goalkeeper of England (Joe Hart), he doesn't like him so he buys the goalkeeper of Barcelona (Claudio Bravo), he doesn't like him so he buys another one (Ederson). Now he likes.
"He has [Pablo] Zabaleta and [Aleksandar] Kolarov - two very good players but more than 30 years old. He wants to replace, he doesn't replace with two, he replaces with three.
"One from Tottenham (Kyle Walker), one from Monaco (Benjamin Mendy) and one from Real Madrid (Danilo) as an example. Can we buy six or seven players at the same time? Can we invest £600-700m? No. So, it's difficult.
"I think the last years, the market is going in such a direction or you belong to one of these clubs where there is no limit and you just buy what you want and there is no limit, there is no financial fair play, there is nothing, you do what you want - or it's hard."
Now, clubs are bound by financial restrictions, which means expensive signings are generally coupled with sales. That is sure to be the case at United this summer. Still, it’s unlikely Mourinho, whose win ratio was only marginally lower than Sir Alex Ferguson’s when he was sacked in December 2018, would approve of United’s current transfer strategy.
Dinbckopty
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Well spoken 🎯
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Litelntz
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always wanna carry up city....
ImoukhuedeGeorge
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chelsea dat bought almost 35 players in one transfer widow...omoh sentiment full online oo.. Chelsea and Manu are still the biggest spenders in the league and mancity has the lowest net spend coz will always sell players too..how can u say Manu has not signed players😝..u want to sign 35 players at once like Chelsea continue crying.yoro,ugarte,de light,mazraoui,dorgu,zirkzee and the rest am sure they are not signing those once are free transfer abi😝😆.. wait and see us carry the league this year with average players with average fees..then com back again to cry that city spends a lot were as ur spending power is more😆😝..500 years of suffer ness in football is jst began
Yes Man U have signed but hasn’t over hauled the the entire squad like Man City
vuaabdipu
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Man U is finished they built their success on one man and when that man left the club crumbled
ParisforMancity
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Be quiet you don’t know what you’re saying did u see the signings Man City did before they started dominating the premier league? Chelsea is yet to do that even though they’re in that situation of doing same . They have really signed a lot of players but not to the quality of Man City. Man united hasn’t done much of the signing but simply doing bad business. Man united hasn’t really overhaul their squad for a very long time. Pepe overhaul his squad completely from the goalkeeper to the striker. Chelsea will get there but are also doing some bad business like man united. The two clubs lack a manager like pep that would sign use then release the player that don’t suit his agenda and sign another one then make good use of the players to win trophies
chelsea dat bought almost 35 players in one transfer widow...omoh sentiment full online oo.. Chelsea and Manu are still the biggest spenders in the league and mancity has the lowest net spend coz will always sell players too..how can u say Manu has not signed players😝..u want to sign 35 players at once like Chelsea continue crying.yoro,ugarte,de light,mazraoui,dorgu,zirkzee and the rest am sure they are not signing those once are free transfer abi😝😆.. wait and see us carry the league this year with average players with average fees..then com back again to cry that city spends a lot were as ur spending power is more😆😝..500 years of suffer ness in football is jst began
natcdnpru
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The real situation is you don't spend you go trophy less football these is all about investing massively
paschal_26
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Don't get tired to invest money, invest money, invest if u want to win. look Madrid, Psg, City, Chelsea they won.
Dapcmostz
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Be quiet you don’t know what you’re saying did u see the signings Man City did before they started dominating the premier league? Chelsea is yet to do that even though they’re in that situation of doing same . They have really signed a lot of players but not to the quality of Man City. Man united hasn’t done much of the signing but simply doing bad business. Man united hasn’t really overhaul their squad for a very long time. Pepe overhaul his squad completely from the goalkeeper to the striker. Chelsea will get there but are also doing some bad business like man united. The two clubs lack a manager like pep that would sign use then release the player that don’t suit his agenda and sign another one then make good use of the players to win trophies
who's is stop Manchester United go spend money like City and dominate Football 🤥
Dapcmostz
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he's talking as if Manchester United doesn't spend money at all
ImoukhuedeGeorge
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if it is by spending money Chelsea and Manu would b carrying the league every year..one tin is to have money one tin is get result..the last 4 premier League we won how many players did we buy?..is it still not the same gundogan Silva Rodri debruyne forden and very few signings we used?
Be quiet you don’t know what you’re saying did u see the signings Man City did before they started dominating the premier league? Chelsea is yet to do that even though they’re in that situation of doing same . They have really signed a lot of players but not to the quality of Man City. Man united hasn’t done much of the signing but simply doing bad business. Man united hasn’t really overhaul their squad for a very long time. Pepe overhaul his squad completely from the goalkeeper to the striker. Chelsea will get there but are also doing some bad business like man united. The two clubs lack a manager like pep that would sign use then release the player that don’t suit his agenda and sign another one then make good use of the players to win trophies
yiscelmns
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it is true our boss Jose Mourinh
ParisforMancity
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if it is by spending money Chelsea and Manu would b carrying the league every year..one tin is to have money one tin is get result..the last 4 premier League we won how many players did we buy?..is it still not the same gundogan Silva Rodri debruyne forden and very few signings we used?
MoltenBoss
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The Special One is speaking with simple senses and hope the club is listening.
GunnArs
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that’s why arsene wenger and especially sir alex ferguson are/were top managers. back in these days you could only afford one or two or max. three new signings (per season), then you had to deal with rest and improve the players you had. and they did it for a long time, built different generations and couldn’t change the whole team. other managers probably had more success (guardiola/mourinho/ancelotti…) but they didn’t build a team/club over 20+ years. and we probably won’t see that again in the fast paced (football) world we’re living in.
pehcinsz
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Good managers invest in Academy Players, look at Barcelona FC, the squad is good and young, that squad will compete for over 10 years... thus as a result of hiring an intelligent manager/coach... Buying Players from other clubs, it's for the average managers/coaches, they financially strain their clubs buying old players, and, produce negative results...
Calvinvester☀️
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🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏
Richardoghale
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Well spoken 🎯
Ruzairstu
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you are putting words into the special one's mouth