Jose Mourinho predicts how Edinson Cavani signing will affect Man Utd

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Jose Mourinho has backed the impending arrival of Edinson Cavani to boost Manchester United’s fortunes after guiding Tottenham to a 6-1 win over them on Sunday.

In one of many shocking results over the weekend, Mourinho’s Tottenham beat his old club by five goals in a ruthless performance.

It has already prompted big questions about Manchester United – although they could go some way to answering them by making some additions on transfer deadline day.

United are thought to be close to the signing of former Paris Saint-Germain striker Edinson Cavani as a free agent.

And while Sunday’s result suggests United need to focus on the other end of the pitch, Mourinho thinks his former employers will bounce back – and that Cavani could play a big part.

“I have sympathy for Ole [Gunnar Solskjaer] because of the result,” he said. “I don’t remember that I lost by [conceding] six but I lost by five and I lost by four, I know how it hurt.

“I know it’s very, very important the winning manager shows sympathy. Of course, I want to win by seven, not by six, don’t get me wrong. But sympathy in our behaviour. Today was him, tomorrow it’s me.

‘One of the top strikers in the world’

 

“I can imagine tonight he is not going to sleep very, very well, but this is the hard life for us. But when I look to his team there was an evolution, it’s not like he arrives here and the team is improving.

“They have good players, bought young players. If it’s true that Cavani is coming, Cavani is one of the top strikers in the world.

“And Manchester United is Manchester United. It’s not this defeat that is going to destroy them, I can imagine they’ll react like Manchester United always react.

“I feel sympathy for the result, apart from that no sympathy because he has an incredible job. The players will stick to him if he feels the players like him and will stick with him. They will react, for sure.”

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