Manchester United boss, Jose Mourinho, has told club website that the international break has made his plans for the Manchester derby a bit more “complicated” than he would have liked, especially with his South American players returning a day before the clash.
Many of United players are away on international duty for their country and striker, Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been given an extended break.
With that, Mourinho has been left with almost none of first team players to work with.
The former FC Porto and Inter Milan manager will also have first-choice right back Antonio Valencia and squad players, goalkeeper Sergio Romero and defender Marcos Rojo, return to the club’s training ground a day before the Manchester derby.
Mourinho told MUTV, “We keep eight outfield players and Sam Johnstone as the goalkeeper.
“We are going to lose the others and we don’t know the way they train, the way they recover, the life they are going to have with their national teams.”
“Some are coming back on the Monday before the Manchester City match but some are coming back on Friday. The day before Man City, we will still have Sergio Romero, Marcos Rojo and Valencia arriving.
“It will be a complicated process but we know it is like this when we have these players. And I would love all of the players to go because it would mean that everybody is being selected for their national teams.”
Mourinho and Manchester City coach, Pep Guardiola were not best of friends when both men were in charge at Madrid and Barcelona respectively.
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