Mourinho agrees £45m deal to be Man Utd manager

First, United actually have to part company with van Gaal, then Mourinho needs to be appointed as the new manager and then they’ll have the hard task of persuading Madrid to do business for Varane.

McCarthy, who won the Champions League under Mourinho, feels differently and pointed out that at Porto he was allowed the time to build a team, which helped him to instill his vision at the club.

The Manchester Evening News is reporting that Manchester United are keeping tabs on Athletic Bilbao defender Aymeric Laporte as they make plans for next season.

Ferdinand sees merit in United promoting from within and handing club icon Ryan Giggs the opportunity to take on the post he briefly held following Moyes demise, should Van Gaal be moved along.

After Sunday’s 1-1 draw with Chelsea, the 64-year-old Dutchman criticised a journalist for broaching the subject, asking: “Why do the club have to deny it when you are creating stories?”

“If you look at the selection now to the one I took over there is no comparison”, he said. What is your name? “Maybe I forget some others”. “But you write what you like”.

‘We’ve got a big squad with lots of games coming up in different competitions. It is more frustrating they scored in extra time and how they scored because Daley Blind slipped more or less.

“It is not easy to play here because the level of the individual players is very high at Chelsea”.

Reports this week suggest Mourinho is confident he’ll land the role at Old Trafford and has been continuously associated as Man United’s next boss.

“When I came in there were eight or 10 players over the age of 30”.

The Red Devils have been stuttering a lot this season, and now find themselves six points adrift of arch rivals Manchester City, who currently occupy the fourth position on the table.