Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is sure of only one more signing before the start of the season and isn’t sure of any others.
The Portuguese manager has demanded for two more signings but will likely get only one.
The Red Devils have so far signed Brazilian Fred and young defender Dalot.
The club have been linked to Harry Maguire, Tottenham’s Toby Alderweireld, Chelsea star Willian and Inter winger Ivan Perisic and are likely to only get one of these despite Mourinho claiming to have submitted a list of 5 players he wanted this summer.
Speaking to Bein sports, he said: “I think two is not what I will get. I think in every pre-season it happens basically the same with probably every club, which the manager wants more. It is our nature and our way to always want more for your team.
“But club decisions are different. Normally you don’t get what you want which basically happened throughout my career. If I sign one player before the window closes, that’s fine.”
“More or less, I know. It’s not going to be very different,” Mourinho said when asked if he knew his best starting XI, with Nemanja Matic injured following surgery, while Antonio Valencia is also nursing a problem.
“We basically have the same players. The players we have bought one is a goalkeeper cover [Lee Grant], one is a 19-year-old kid, so in fact we have one new player which is Fred, so of course our team is not going to be very different.”
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He did show support for the transfer window closing early for Premier League clubs
Mourinho added: “I agree that when the season starts the transfer window closes,
“I’m not a big fan of one player starting the season with one club and then a couple of weeks later the window is open, he moves to another club and he plays against his former club – I really don’t like that.
“I agree totally with the window closing at the same time as the Premier League starts. What I don’t agree with is that the Premier League starts now.
“You look at other countries with lots of players in the World Cup they start later – Spain and Italy starts later. The Premier League could and should do that.”
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