Jose Mourinho confirms Manchester United will have a quiet summer window

Posted Saturday, February 11, 2017 by squawka.com

Jose Mourinho has echoed executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward's claims that Manchester United will have a quiet summer transfer window.

Having splashed out a world record fee to complete the signing of Paul Pogba last August, as well as spending big on Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Eric Bailly, Woodward revealed on Thursday that there won't be too much transfer activity surrounding the club this year.

Speaking ahead of his side's Premier League clash with Watford tomorrow afternoon, Mourinho insisted that he's not interested in bringing six or more players to Old Trafford in the summer.

"First of all, yesterday I had to ask a friend about 'churn' because I had no idea," Mourinho said, as reported by the Daily Mirror.

"It's 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.

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

"It's not our philosophy, independent of the numbers, if you can spend £1m, £10m or 100m. It's also the philosophy, the idea and we look at it in this way.

"We prefer to bring two three or four players, players that feel an idea, a football we try to play, that can improve our squad.
"We're not interested in signing six or seven or selling six or seven, we're not going to play this game.

"We're stable, so we think our market in the summer will be soft, will be natural, some players to leave, some players to come, but in a very natural way, so I think the word Ed used was a good one."

How Mourinho's comments affect talk of United's willingness to break the transfer record again to sign Antoine Griezmann from Atletico Madrid in the summer, as revealed by Squawka last month, remains to be seen as it would appear that the Portuguese tactician is rather happy with his squad.

This is further evidenced by the fact the Red Devils were inactive in the winter transfer window, choosing to trim their squad with the sales of Morgan Schneiderlin as well as Memphis Depay to Everton and Lyon respectively.