Mourinho Hits Out At Manchester United Transfer Policy

Mourinho Hits Out at Man United Transfer Policy

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Jose Mourinho has highlighted the investment made in Manchester City and Liverpool's squads in a thinly veiled dig at Manchester United's transfer policy during his time in charge.

Although United splashed out £89 million ($115m) on Paul Pogba and £75m ($97m) on Romelu Lukaku during his time in charge, Mourinho was left increasingly frustrated by what he perceived to be a lack of backing in the market by the Old Trafford board.

But Mourinho used an appearance as a television pundit on beIN SPORTS on Saturday to highlight the spending lavished on Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp's squads.

"In the first season, Guardiola was not champion and it was really difficult, people were expecting a winning Manchester City," he said. "They were coming already from a winning period, they were champions with [Roberto] Mancini and [Manuel] Pellegrini.

"Some of the players were champions twice - [Sergio] Aguero, [Vincent] Kompany, lots of them. And in the second season, Pep made great decisions but great decisions that were supported.

"He didn't want [Pablo] Zabaleta and [Bacary] Sagna, two right-backs, he didn't want [Aleksandar] Kolarov, he didn't want [Gael] Clichy. In the same summer, he sold four full-backs, he got four full-backs.

"He got [Kyle] Walker, Danilo, [Benjamin] Mendy and I don't remember, [Oleksandr] Zinchenko or [Fabian] Delph or something. He was supported. You see Liverpool [playing on Saturday], and I was thinking how many of these players were at Liverpool before Jurgen arrived?

"No Alisson. No [Virgil] van Dijk. No [Andy] Robertson. No [Mohamed] Salah. No [Roberto] Firmino. No [Sadio] Mane. No Fabinho. No [Georginio] Wijnaldum - I don't think he played today [against Crystal Palace] - no Wijnaldum. No [Naby] Keita - this is work in depth."