Jose's Summer Transfers Hint

Jose Mourinho has reinforced Ed Woodward's view that Manchester United's squad will be improved this summer, albeit with fewer changes than we have seen in recent years.

Executive vice-chairman Woodward told shareholders in a public conference call on Thursday that "there will be continual improvement but we don't have to churn a large number of players."

Mourinho was duly asked about that comment in his weekly press conference at the Aon Training Complex on Friday and the manager amusingly began by admitting he had learned a new English word.
 
"First of all, yesterday I had to ask a friend about 'churn' because I had no idea," the boss joked with the reporters in attendance. "It is a new word for my vocabulary, you have to learn every time you can and I thank Ed for that word because I didn't have an idea."

Turning to the meaning of Woodward's comments, the manager concurred: "He's completely right.

"Of course we speak about it, of course we speak about what's next. We know that we have a squad that, like every squad, needs changes. But we also know that our squad has potential, our squad has good players and many of them are at the best age, in the age of evolution. 

"You know we prefer to bring in two, three or four players but good players - players that fulfill an idea of the football that we try to play, players that can improve our squad. We are not interested in selling six or seven and buying six or seven. From this six or seven only one or two are great quality, all the others are the same as the ones we are selling, so we are not going to play this game. 

"We are stable so our market in the summer will be soft, it will be natural. Some players will leave, some players will come, but in a very natural way. I think the word that Ed used is a good one."