Zlatan Is Important For My Team – Jose Mourinho

Jose Mourinho has told Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Romelu Lukaku that no one is certain of a place in his Manchester United team.

“Zlatan knows me. And he knows that I play the players that I think are the best for the team. I always did it.

“I always did that in my life so if he comes here and he proves that he is the best, he plays. If the other ones don’t give him a chance to prove that, that’s life. But I try always to be honest with my players and with my team. I try.

“Maybe sometimes I do not do the correct things. But I always try to do.”

“I see Zlatan important for the team. I just say that my squad is better for sure, he is one more option, he is one more striker, he is one more experienced player, one more player that can play nine or 10, that can play double strikers or no, there are lots of matches to play.

“If we progress in the Champions League and if we progress in one of the two cups, I don’t even say both, if we do that we are going to be in the position where we couldn’t do it only with Lukaku and Rashford, especially if I play both together.

“We are going to be a better squad and I give you just one example — if we play Stoke on the weekend and two days later we play against Burton and I want to give a rest to my two strikers, who do I play against Burton? I have to play Rashford or Lukaku.

“I don’t have another one to play so I cannot give rest to my players, I cannot do rotation with them like I am going to do with the midfield players or the central defenders or with the wingers.

“He is one of the best strikers in the world so the only consequence of it is we are going to have a much better squad.