Schweinsteiger & Januzaj look doomed as Mourinho hints at sales

Adnan Januzaj: Heading for the exit door

Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has admitted that any player who did not feature in his squad against Galatasaray are not part of his plans.

Bastian Schweinsteiger and Adnan Januzaj were not included in the travelling party to Sweden and are set to be the first casualties of manager Jose Mourinho’s clear-out.

Of the players who did not travel, Mourinho gave most of them a chance to impress with the Portuguese making 11 changes in the second half against Galatasaray, where United won 5-2.

Asked if the players who came on showed they want to be in his plans, Mourinho told MUTV: “If they were not in my plans I would not give them one single minute, I would not keep them in my squad.

“The squad is very competitive, the squad is very important for the season.

“We have 38 matches in the Premier League, we have the possibility of 15 matches in the Europa League, plus domestic cups, we are going to play 60 matches. So with 60 matches we cannot do it with 11 players.

“So to be in the squad you have to understand that the squad is more important than the individual, the club is more important than all of us, and to be in the squad you have to be ready for this, to play, not to play, play a lot, play less, play 90 minutes, play one minute, not be selected, everything is part of a squad life.”

 

Mourinho on Man Utd fitness

Mourinho admits his players are behind schedule in their preparations after their friendly against Manchester City in Beijing was called off because of an unfit pitch.

“We lost a week in China and some of the boys that played today had trained two days,” he added.

“There’s not a lot of time to work, to change, to make a couple of new ideas and new principles of play, everything is step by step and the reality is we don’t have this time.

“We have a game against Leicester next week (Community Shield) and we have the Premier League in a couple of weeks.

“We need time and we don’t have time, the only solution is to train hard and train hard against opposition like today.”