MOURINHO"S SATISFACTION

          
           
              January is here and you know it’s time for blistering cold, less outdoor activities and more curling up in a warm couch and paying close attention to the latest transfer news surrounding Manchester United. Which players are coming into the club and which players are ready to pack their bags out of Old trafford in search of greener pastures. It’s only been two days into January and already Manchester United are in the limelight of the transfer window rumours. Yes, a lot of quality players are already popping up as potential players that will be making their way into Old Trafford by the end of this coming January as well as players that will be packing and leaving Old Trafford in search of greener pastures by the end of January. Manager Jose Mourinho has not made any clear statements on the clubs plan for the club this January, in the last two summer transfer window, mourinho released any chains that might have limited the number of players the clubs lets in the club and brought in Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Victor Lindelof and Romelu Lukaku. Mkhitaryan is a player who has proven that he has the skill and pace that can change any game to win for his own team. The Armenian was expected to become the ultimate game changer for the Red Devils with the support of Paul Pogba, Nemanja Matic right behind him and Romelu Lukaku right in front, Mkhitaryan was expected to have enough breathing space around him to influence the game a little bit more by creating goals for himself and for his team mates but as the mid season approaches, Mkhitaryan`s lack of productivity for the team has found him struggling for Game time and could find himself heading out of Old Trafford by the end of January.

            Arsenal is one club that has expressed serious interest on the player, United might be open to talks of a player swap. Mkhitaryan for Alexis Sanchez is a business deal mourinho is working on closing as soon as possible.  Sanchez will currently cost Manchester United a total fee of around £25 million to buy the Chilean out of his current contract that is supposed to come end in the  summer of 2018. United are certainly capable of Paying for Sanchez’s release cluase in other to bring the super star over to Old Trafford this season and the versatile Player will definately be a great boost to Uniteds attacking flair for the rest of the season. United are not just stopping at paying for Sanchez’s release cluase but are also willing to send unseatled United player Henrik Mkhitaryan to seal the deal. 

To be hornest, this sounds like a good deal that would benefit both Arsenal and Manchester United. Neither player have really shown signs of satisfaction on their clubs. As for Manchester United, the addition of Sanchez this January will strengthen the teams level of quality on the field. So, I fully expect the news of agreement of a deal between the two clubs to be done and realesed by the end of the month of January at the latest.

     

         In a more certain news, Manchester United are ready to welcome back super star striker Romelu Lukaku back in the starting eleven. The clubs star center forward sustained a head injuring during the Red Devils recent match against english club Southampton when the big man jumped to try and win a header and was stretchered off with an oxygen mask on. As expected, Manchester United fans had feared the worse when they watched the clubs number one striker injured and the amount time the media, the fans had anticipated the injury to last was about a couple of months at least. Mourinho, however, has delivered some great news to everyone affiliated with Manchester United that Lukaku is currently recuoperating very well and was even requesting a return to practice but the manager denied the Belgiums request and is admant on letting the striker rest and regain his full fitness in other to aid Manchester United keep the pressure on Manchester City for the remainder of the season. This week mourinho decided to make headlines like he normally does by entering a battle with manager Antonio Conte this month. Mourinho and Conte has had a bikerring between eachother that has streched back to last season when Chelsea beat Manchester United when United paid a visit to stanford bridge during the Red Devils chase for the Premier League glory. During the game, Antonio Conte celebrated Chelsea’s goals by sliding close to Manchester Uniteds bench. The defeat played a crucial roll in Manchester Uniteds title dream and Mourinho showed his disaproval with Conte’s antiques by whispering some choice words in the Chelsea mangers ear. No one knows what the words were but Mourinho did express his dissapointment during his post match press comfress by saying “ I thought his antiques were a bit childish and unproffessional”. Ever since then, the two managers have been making the headlines in the papers. Mourinho has never shyed away from being the center of the news ever since his days as FC Porto general manager and it has continued after that. Quite frankly I don’t mind the manager expressing himself at any point in the season and i’m sure the fans would not be fazed whenever the media decides to blow things out of proportion but the only time the fans will start showing concern is when the managers antiques start to affect the teams success. So as long as Mourinho wins titles and keeps the fans happy, the fans will accept his antiques as well as any news the english media writes about the manager.  

   To finish up for the day, I will talk on manchester United possibly extending Mourinho's managerial contract that would keep the Portuguese Manager at the club past the year 2018.  Ever since his appointment as Manchester United Mourinho has lead the club to win The FA Cup and The EFL Cup consecutively. With two title under his belt already, the legendary portuguese manager went on to demand that United complete at least one big money signing that will help boost the teams performance and help the club stake strong champîonship challenges in the near future. With all the major improvements Mourinho has already made in United in only his first season, it's no surprise that the fans are already expecting new faces to contacted and negotiations for new players acquisitions to be completed by the end of January 2018. With that in mind there are some other players currently  on expiring contracts whom have been strongly linked with a move to Old Trafford and are certainly not out of Manchester United's reach.