Nemanja Matic “very happy” to reunite with Jose Mourinho at Manchester United

In the process, he is rekindled with Jose Mourinho who was his manager when at Chelsea.

“For me, he is a good player and is at a good age, an age he can evolve, but if he keeps what he did last year and in the last two or three years, he will be an excellent signing”.

“Manchester is one of the biggest clubs in the world and also I wanted to train with Jose again”, he said. In Nemanja Matic, he got exactly what he wanted.

“Lukaku is a 25 goals-a-season striker, I expect Marcus [Rashford] to get even better this year and I see Mkhitaryan improving a lot as well, so I expect to see more goals”.

The match will be held at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.

The 28 year old will be a ideal addition alongside Paul Pogba in the midfield.

In the first minute, the new midfielder was barking orders at team-mates, telling Antonio Valencia where to pass the ball when United won an early throw.

He was speaking to MUTV, and said: “Vidic was a great player – he had a great career”. But when Matic and Pogba started to gel, United looked much better.

He added: “Manchester United have got a tremendous player, a tremendous holding player, and they’ve needed somebody of that ilk”.

Mourinho had previously worked with Matic in Chelsea and the pair had a successful year in which they also clinched the Premier League.

United will be without defender Phil Jones for their Super Cup game next Tuesday after Uefa banned him for two matches for insulting a doping control officer following May’s Europa League final.

Manchester United vs Sampdoria will kick off at 7:45pm on Wednesday, August 2.

Substitute Juan Mata got the victor with 10 minutes left, coolly side-footing in from the edge of the penalty area.

Mourinho made a number of changes in the second half and it allowed Sampdoria to build confidence. However, it is understood that Fellaini will risk waiting until the middle of the term before deciding whether to leave, giving Mourinho six months to convince the 6 ft 3ins midfielder that he remains in his plans.