Guardian
- Sat Dec 15 10:30 PM
• Manchester United manager does not know if club will back him • Mourinho describes Liverpool as ‘lucky ones’ and praises Salah José Mourinho has made the surprise admission that he does not know if Manchester United will back him in the January transfer window. United arrive at Liverpool for Su...
Guardian
- Sat Dec 15 9:00 AM
The table, form, individual quality, defensive cohesion and a clear style of play all point to victory for the Premier League leaders at Anfield but Liverpool know better than to treat their north-west rivals lightly, or any team managed by José Mourinho for that matter. Manchester United are unb...
Guardian
- Sat Dec 15 8:30 AM
Liverpool’s manager has something of a habit of handing his rival at Anfield on Sunday defeats that spell the end of the road It is a tribute to the indelible grandeur of Manchester United that even a season of constipated football and toxic managerial asides can still seem epic-scale and entirel...
Guardian
- Fri Dec 14 4:33 PM
Fulham were desperately poor against Manchester United last time out but now face arguably a tougher task in hosting West Ham. A fourth win in a row is on the cards and with Felipe Anderson playing so magnificently Fulham’s notional defence could be in for a very difficult and draining evening. C...
Guardian
- Fri Dec 14 3:03 PM
The Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp has said that his side will be angry ahead of their game with Manchester United on Sunday, adding that ‘we fight for our points’. When asked about his counterpart José Mourinho Klopp praised what he called ‘one of the most successful managers in the world’ Conti...
Guardian
- Fri Dec 14 11:57 AM
• Manager says reasons run deeper than transfers • Trophies matter, Mourinho says before game at Liverpool José Mourinho believes Manchester United are a long way from playing in his image and has suggested structural issues at the club are to blame. United travel to Anfield on Sunday 16 points b...
Guardian
- Fri Dec 14 11:25 AM
Will PSG finally make the last four? Will Liverpool win away from Anfield? Will Lyon win another game? By Ben McAleer and Josh Wright for WhoScored Ajax have qualified for the Champions League knockout stages for the first time in 13 years and almost did so as group winners. The four-time Europea...
Guardian
- Fri Dec 14 12:28 AM
A crunch clash at Anfield, depleted Palace and Huddersfield teams, and the start of a crucial run for Fulham It is a marker of how far Manchester United have fallen to see that when Gary Neville set about choosing his combined XI for Liverpool and Manchester United on Monday Night Football, he in...
Guardian
- Thu Dec 13 2:00 PM
Manchester United were always underdogs at Anfield in the 1980s but they usually showed enough heart to earn a result By Steven Pye for That 1980s Sports Blog Even during Liverpool’s decade of dominance, their record against Manchester United was relatively poor. The two great rivals met 20 times...
Guardian
- Thu Dec 13 2:20 AM
'To finish second in this group is always a success, ' says Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho. His team missed the chance to finish top of its Champions League group as an understrength team lost 2-1 at Valencia, with an embarrassing own-goal by Phil Jones proving decisive. With first-place...
Guardian
- Wed Dec 12 11:53 PM
• Victory at Valencia would have seen United top the group • Manager says eight of his players passed up a big chance José Mourinho aimed another shot at his players, revealing his growing frustration as he insisted he had learnt “nothing” and was not surprised by his team’s 2-1 defeat at Valenci...
Guardian
- Wed Dec 12 11:38 PM
• Manchester City, Barça, Real and Bayern among top seeds • Liverpool, Spurs and United face daunting prospects The Premier League will supply a quarter of the teams in the Champions League last-16 draw, which will take place at 11am on Monday. Teams from the same country cannot be drawn against...
Guardian
- Wed Dec 12 10:29 PM
• Manchester United have also been linked to Argentinian • Pochettino’s stock rising after Champions League progress Tottenham are braced for further interest in Mauricio Pochettino after the manager enhanced his reputation with Tuesday ’s 1-1 draw at Barcelona – a result that carried his team in...
Guardian
- Wed Dec 12 10:01 PM
Manchester United are through to the next round of the Champions League, but then everyone knew that already. They are also not very good, but then everyone knew that too. Switzerland’s Young Boys defeated Juventus 2-1 to gift United the chance to overhaul them and take first place, but they did...
Guardian
- Wed Dec 12 7:16 PM
Champions League updates from the 8pm GMT game at Mestalla Lukaku: bulking up for World Cup has hampered my form And feel free to drop Paul an email or tweet @Paul_Doyle 7.16pm GMT “Valencia is playing against Valencia—it’s clearly going to be a draw, then, ” quips Ric Arthur from Toronto. A refe...
Guardian
- Wed Dec 12 9:21 AM
Today’s fluff has got plenty of problems Marcus Rashford is a target for Milan . Paul Pogba is unhappy. And José Mourinho has gone to the absurd lengths of distancing himself from a claim that he’s committed to Manchester United made by his own agent . “It’s not my statement, I didn’t know at all...
Guardian
- Tue Dec 11 3:49 PM
• José Mourinho has omitted midfielder for two matches • Scott McTominay preferred for 15 minutes against Fulham Paul Pogba has been left shocked at being dropped by José Mourinho, with the Manchester United midfielder left out of the starting XI for the past two games, against Arsenal and Fulham...
Guardian
- Mon Dec 10 8:14 AM
Bournemouth are looking threadbare, Pep Guardiola shows the stomach for a fight and Leicester pine for Jamie Vardy With the issues piling up in terms of Arsenal’s defensive composition, it almost passed unnoticed that against Huddersfield they managed a league clean sheet – their first since Sept...
Guardian
- Sun Dec 9 10:30 PM
• Striker has had to lose muscle mass he put on for Belgium • ‘I wasn’t playing with enough intensity or aggression’
Romelu Lukaku has revealed that he bulked up for Belgium’s World Cup campaign during the summer and admitted having to lose the added weight as it was hampering his form for Manche...
Guardian
- Sun Dec 9 6:24 PM
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Guardian
- Sat Dec 8 7:34 PM
José Mourinho praised his team’s effort after Manchester United thrashed Fulham 4-1 at Old Trafford. The result ended United’s run of four games without a win and Mourinho said the convincing nature of their victory should earn the ‘respect’ of fans. He confirmed that Paul Pogba, an unused substi...
Guardian
- Sat Dec 8 4:56 PM
If only Manchester United could play Fulham every week people might begin to take them more seriously. The joke before kick-off at Old Trafford was that Liverpool had done United a favour by winning so handsomely at Bournemouth, because goal difference might be important in the battle for eighth...
Guardian
- Fri Dec 7 8:00 PM
Manchester United ever being relegated is now unthinkable but when it was a reality the club were revitalised There was a good story at the start of this week’s BT Sport documentary Too Good To Go Down, a highly watchable 90-minute blockbuster about Manchester United’s relegation in 1973. Ten min...
Guardian
- Fri Dec 7 5:00 PM
José Mourinho’s distinctly odd campaign had its latest instalment in Jorge Mendes’s statement on Friday that said his client will not be vacating his post at Manchester United. He may, though, have zero say if United fail to beat Fulham, the bottom side, as sooner rather than later Mourinho has t...
Guardian
- Fri Dec 7 3:54 PM
Post on Manchester United’s Facebook page received more than 43, 000 negative reactions Premier League football teams including Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea have received thousands of homophobic responses on social media for showing solidarity with Stonewall’s pro-LGBT Rainbow Laces cam...
Guardian
- Fri Dec 7 12:02 PM
• Kompany takes apparent swipe at Mourinho among others • This is what Hazard needs, says Manchester City defender
Vincent Kompany has taken an apparent swipe at José Mourinho among others by saying that
Eden Hazard finally has an attack-minded manager at Chelsea who can get the best out of him....
Guardian
- Fri Dec 7 10:56 AM
• £50m midfielder did not make squad for Arsenal match • ‘Day we are stronger defensively the horizons for Fred change’ José Mourinho has said that Fred, his sole marquee summer signing, will struggle for selection until Manchester United are “defensively stronger”. The Brazilian cost £50m but ha...
Guardian
- Fri Dec 7 8:44 AM
Today’s fluff is sniffly Manchester United are said to be prepared to pay £40m to nab Mauricio Pochettino from Tottenham. Bit steep, though. Maybe Ed Woodward could just come back to Old Trafford with the much cheaper and the much more available Mauricio Pellegrino. Would anyone notice? Maybe. In...
Guardian
- Fri Dec 7 12:00 AM
Chelsea are fragile before meeting Manchester City, Manchester United at home to the bottom club no longer looks a walkover and will it be same old for Saints despite a new manager? It is far too early for any “I’m Sarri I haven’t a clue” headlines but the past few weeks have given a more accurat...
Guardian
- Thu Dec 6 4:56 PM
• Midfielder had hair pulled by Manchester United’s Fellaini • Initial news on Rob Holding’s knee injury is ‘not good’ Unai Emery has brushed aside controversy over Mattéo Guendouzi’s hair by telling his youngster to get it cut. The French midfielder had his frizzy hair pulled straight by Marouan...