Daily Mirror

‘FOCUS ON FOOTBALL’

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FROM BACK PAGE out on their own. The United boss said: ”I focus on football, so if you want to speak about their football potential we can speak, and football potential starts with investment.

“After that, of course, there is a quality of the work, of the organisati­on, I think that is untouchabl­e.

“What is behind, I cannot say. In this moment I have only to think about football, and to think about football is to think about Manchester City as a football team.”

United came from behind to triumph 3-2 at the Etihad in April with a winner from Chris Smalling (above) to delay City’s title coronation.

And Mourinho said they will go there again to try and throw a spanner in the works.

Asked if United will go toe-to-toe with City in an attacking sense, Mourinho said: “We’re going to try.

“I can’t say we’re going to be successful in our motivation­s, but we played two difficult matches away against two very good teams, Chelsea and Juventus, and we managed to get good results. The team is growing up.”

 ??  ?? MAKE THE RIGHT NOISES (clockwise) Pogba, Martial, Shaw and Lindelof will be aiming to hurt the champions TOP OF THE PREMIER TABL
MAKE THE RIGHT NOISES (clockwise) Pogba, Martial, Shaw and Lindelof will be aiming to hurt the champions TOP OF THE PREMIER TABL

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