Jose Mourinho has apparently told Manchester United’s executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward that Arsenal’s Welsh midfielder, Aaron Ramsey, is better than Paul Pogba.
Pogba’s second spell at Old Trafford looks remarkably like his first. He has sparkled on occasion since his £89 million pound move back in 2016, but his career has stuttered, spluttered and come to a grinding halt under the special one.
Mourinho has already swapped Mkhitaryan for Sanchez, has a keen interest in Bellerin and now it seems he’d like to add Ramsey to his collection. From this, we could easily assume that the United Manager secretly wants to manage Arsenal.
Not that Arsene Wenger is in a hurry to pack up the contents of his desk in the foreseeable future, but you can’t blame the United manager for wishful thinking.
For a side put together by a ‘specialist in failure’, he seems to covet quite a few of his players. Perhaps the expectations would be easier for him to manage or he feels that he would face less interference.
After the Sanchez deal you would think the Portuguese boss would err on the side of caution to avoid another bank-busting, non-productive transfer but he shows no signs of relenting, quite the opposite in fact.
He could even persuade Woodward to merge the clubs and rename them ArseUnited and eradicate the North London side altogether, giving him the best of both worlds.
A never-ending residency in a managerial job that ceases when he chooses, presided over by an absentee owner and run by a CEO who enjoys long lunches to talk about changes that never happen.
It wouldn’t even surprise anyone if Wenger’s nemesis suddenly revealed that he had purchased a luxury penthouse apartment at the former Highbury stadium or that he wore Arsenal pajamas, such is the turnaround in his affection for the club.
Whatever the reason for his renewed interest in Arsenal, it looks like Mourinho will be back in the summer for one, maybe two players to assist him in his aims of wrestling the title from his nearby neighbours. It would be far easier just to wait until Wenger departs, to work with the group without incurring any fees at all.
