Jose Mourinho has branded Premier League rivals Jurgen Klopp and Arsene Wenger as ‘unethical’ for questioning Manchester United’s £100million pursuit of Paul Pogba.
Wenger
has described the world record bid as ‘completely crazy’ while Klopp
said ‘the day that this is football, I'm not in a job anymore’.
Speaking
before United’s Community Shield clash with Leicester at Wembley on
Sunday, Mourinho told them to mind their own business saying: ‘I don’t
like to speak about other clubs or players from other clubs, other
managers they like to do that and speak about my club and my players.
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United are expected to complete the world record signing of Pogba imminently
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| Mourinho delivers a team talk to his United players during training on Friday morning |
‘I’m very pragmatic on this. The only thing that matters for me is what happens in my house not my neighbours.
‘I already heard two of my colleagues from other Premier League clubs and I have to confess I don’t like it. It’s not ethical.
‘When others do that nobody says anything I don’t speak about the others, they can do what they want.
'We made decisions. We brought four players, not 10, who are Man United level and can really improve the squad.
‘The others, it’s their problem they can do what they want.’
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| Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger described United's chase of Pogba as 'completely crazy' |
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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp also criticised United's willingness to spend so much money
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Mourinho
reiterated that he hopes Pogba will be a United player by the time his
team kicks off their Premier League campaign at Bournemouth a week on
Sunday.
Asked
if there is one more big signing on the way, he replied: ‘Yes. We have
22 now and we are going to have 23. Paul Pogba is a Juventus player
until officially he isn’t.
‘We
stay like this but, honestly, the market closes on August 31 but I
think my club is trying to do everything to close our market before
August 14. Normally next week we will have our squad closed.
‘We
have four players that we think can really improve the squad and not
just be one more. This is the profile of our market. A young defender
that needs time to be a top one but who has top potential (Eric
Bailly).
'A
creative player that we know the quality (Henrikh Mkhitaryan), a super
striker (Zlatan Ibrahimovic), and we are going to get a very good
midfielder.
'We try for balance. I am happy with my squad. I am happy with the effort of the club.’
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