Jose Mourinho will sign a new contract at Manchester United.
The club says an announcement is not “imminent,” while Mourinho’s representatives are more optimistic. The bottom line, though, is that it will get done.
Mourinho is still dealing with the problems that come with chopping and changing. The team he picked to play Stoke on Monday included players signed by four different managers. There are members of his squad he would not have signed; others he would have kept have been sold — Angel Di Maria and Javier Hernandez to name two. An extended stay at Old Trafford should allow him to implement a more joined-up transfer strategy — not so much need to fix mistakes and more focus on fine-tuning a squad already going in the right direction.
The ultimate aim is the Premier League and the Champions League. The good news for United fans is that Mourinho would not be sticking around if he did not believe either were achievable targets.
In October, he gave an interview to French television during which he talked up the “special project” at Paris Saint-Germain. You can understand the attraction. A club who have won four of the last five French titles were prepared to splash £198 million on Neymar and commit another £166 million to sign Kylian Mbappe in one summer.
He has certainly not been starved of cash.
He broke the transfer record for Paul Pogba in his first summer and was given upwards of £75 million to sign Romelu Lukaku six months ago. In total, he has spent £268 million on seven players — an outlay most managers can only dream of.
But he is not a man who is used to finishing second.
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