Jose Mourinho insists it is too early to discuss summer transfers, although the Manchester United boss stated he will not waste his time on ‘impossible targets’.
The Red Devils are expected to enjoy another productive window at the end of the season, with a host of names linked with moves to Old Trafford. Antoine Griezmann is a long-term target for United and reports from last month suggested the club were edging closer to sealing his signature in a potentially record-breaking deal.
But Mourinho said it is too soon to be talking about the transfer window, while reiterating he will be realistic about potential incomings.
‘To be speaking about the transfer window when we are on the third of February makes no sense at all,’ Mourinho said ahead of the trip to Leicester City on Sunday.
‘The transfer window opens in the summer and until the summer I have nothing to tell you. The only thing I can repeat is what I told you in the last day of January. I know what I want.
‘I have worked with my players for about seven months or so. I know them better now than six or seven months ago. As for what I think we need, I’m very realistic. I know what are the impossible targets.’
Mourinho added: ‘I don’t like my club to participate in impossible deals, it’s a waste of time, it’s a gift to these impossible players and to their agents to have a club like Manchester United interested in them, it just helps them to improve their own situation but it’s not good for us at all. So I’m very realistic.
-Metro
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