V SANCHEZ: THE END
MAN UTD STOKE CITY Jose: Fantastic’ Alexis deal HEN PARTY OVER Charlie: Stoke fire to survive
IF Manchester United buy Alexis Sanchez now they won’t need to spend big on another striker in the summer.
Mourinho wants another top attacker to add to Romelu Lukaku, Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial with Zlatan Ibrahimovic set to leave in the summer. JOSE MOURINHO is ready to sell Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
The Armenian playmaker has struggled to win over the Manchester United boss this season and was reported to be part of the package to tempt Arsenal to sell Alexis Sanchez.
Mkhitaryan was bought from Borussia Dortmund in a
“But if there is a fantastic opportunity on the table, you fight for that fantastic opportunity. If it happens, it happens.” £26.8million deal 18 months ago after being named the Bundesliga players’ player of the year.
Mourinho said: “My approach is that every player has a price. And I am not the kind of blind manager.
“Blind in the sense that this player is untouchable, this one can never be sold.” CHARLIE ADAM has a warning for his Stoke City team-mates: Fight – or you’ll be found out. The former Scotland international claims working, not shirking, will have to be the mantra over the next four months as the Potters battle to stay in the Premier League. Adam questioned his colleagues, claiming some were “mentally weak” after a week in which Mark Hughes was shown the door following Stoke’s FA Cup exit at League Two Coventry. The midfielder said: “We are capable of escaping – but we are also in a dogfight. “And whoever doesn’t roll their sleeves up is going to be found out. “As a group of players we have to look at ourselves and ask, ‘Could we have done more?’ The answer is, ‘Yes’. “We will get nothing unless we work for it. If we stick together and work hard, we should be fine.”