‘Don’t talk bull to the people’

and his involvement in the dynamic of the team.

“I can speak on Paul’s behalf without any kind of problem and Paul accepts he has not been playing well in the last few matches but that’s all. End of story.

“You don’t need to come out with, ‘We are going to sell him, he wants to leave, we fight every day, we don’t see each other’. You don’t do that.

“Some people go in that direction and I know them for many years, I know their profile, their surname is liar.”

It is not the first time Mourinho has rounded on ex-United stars who are TV pundits. Already this season he has criticised Paul Scholes, Gary Neville, Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney.

“There are good pundits in other countries,” he said. “But we have here, at least in number, the biggest pundit industry because there are hundreds of them and the majority of them with a great background and knowledge of football.

“Some of the guys are paid millions so don’t tell people things that are not true. They’re paid to read the game, to explain the game to people – don’t talk bull **** .”

Paul Ince did not respond last night for a comment on Mourinho’s remarks.

Huddersfield manager David Wagner has told kit man Andy Brook to make sure his players have their underwear on when the TV cameras return to the John Smith’s Stadium.

Substitute Danny Williams accidentally exposed himself in front of millions of viewers last Sunday, when he pulled his shorts down as the cameras zoomed in for a shot of Wagner, late on in the match against Bournemouth.

Wagner said: “I have spoken with our kit man and he has to make sure everybody wears some underpants. That will definitely be the case for the United game.”