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Manchester United round-up: Mourinho hits out at Rostov; move for Italian set for failure; bizarre Van Gaal claim
Jose Mourinho has hit out at Manchester United’s opposition on Thursday evening, Russian side Rostov, as he critised the pitch that the Red Devils are set to play on in Europa League action. He told the press, as reported by :
“It’s hard for me to believe we are going to play on that field – if you can call it a field. I don’t know which team to play. In a very similar pitch in the summer in China, we and Manchester City decided not to play. But it looks like we have to play. I don’t know what team to play, really. I just had a quick contact with one gentleman from Uefa when I was looking at the pitch and when I told him about my concerns, the gentleman just told me, ‘The players are insured, if something happens no problem’.”
The Portuguese manager is not happy with the surface but it is understood that the game will go ahead as planned regardless, though it may force the boss not to risk some players recovering from injury like Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
More bad news for the club has come as a move for Italian midfielder Marco Verratti seems doomed after his brother Stefano told , as translated by the and :
“My brother has always been grateful and full of respect to the club for bringing him here and making him a part of the team. I think that, if he can, he will remain in Paris for the rest of his life. He is very attached to the city – it is where his son was born. It is in Paris that Marco has become a man. Teammates come and go, but the club and the city remain the same.”
The Paris Saint-Germain midfielder was said to be available for a fee in the region of £70 million, but it now seems highly likely that the 24-year-old will leave the reigning Ligue Un champions.
In another surprising headline, former assistant manager Albert Stuivenberg has revealed how much freedom and responsibility he was given when working alongside former boss Louis Van Gaal whilst at Old Trafford as he told the :
“The role Louis gave me at Old Trafford was unique. It was extraordinary that he gave me so much responsibility. He gave me his complete trust. At United, I was doing the training sessions for the selected first team before games. I was fully in charge. I was doing all the pre-match team talks, and I did the post-match talk with the team and individual players.”
Van Gaal remains without a job since leaving Manchester but Stuivenberg is now in charge of Belgian club Genk, where he took the reigns in January.
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