Mourinho defends Pogba ‘virus’ claims; ‘we can finish top 4’

04 dic 2018

Reports this week suggested that Jose Mourinho would have had an outburst in the Manchester United dressing room in which he accused Paul Pogba of being like a virus. On the eve of United’s Premier League clash with Arsenal, Mourinho gave his press conference, in which he cleared up the comments he made – as well as indicating his goal for the season.

“I quoted one thing in an interview I gave to Brazilian TV and you can go there and see what I said. But it’s another thing to be quoted [indirectly] – by who? Or how? I don’t play that game. I don’t play the game of the suggest.

“Last week before the Crystal Palace game I said my hopes and targets were by the end of December to be in that [fourth] position. The target has changed in the sense of ‘let’s try to close the distance as much as we can and try by the end of December to be very close to these positions’. I think, far from a miracle, we just need to not to be so unlucky with the problems that we have. We need some players to perform better than they are and we need to perform better as a team than we are, but far from a miracle - not at all.”

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