Football transfer rumours: Pogba and Sánchez face Manchester United exit?

Today’s rumours are flying solo

When Louis van Gaal was fighting to avoid the sack at Old Trafford a little over two years ago, his old pal José Mourinho didn’t exactly lend a hand. But reports that the manager wrote a six-page letter to Manchester United describing how he would make the club great again, should a vacancy arise, were dismissed as “ridiculous and totally absurd” by Mourinho’s agent. Van Gaal sure didn’t like how his dismissal eventually went down and has since said United’s “low and mean” behaviour during that time left him so embittered that after his jilting he rejected other jobs just so United would have to continue paying him compensation for being out of work. 

The Mill mentions all this because the Sun says Zinedine Zidane has called Mourinho to reassure the Portuguese that he is not lobbying for his job, through letters or any other medium. And the Sun also claims this has convinced Mourinho that someone representing United has been sniffing around the Frenchman. Details of the reported call are sparse but the Mill likes to imagine that Mourinho asked Zidane if he would care to be put through to Ed Woodward to say he would not accept the job if offered it, whereupon the connection was unfortunately lost. Terrible signal, you see.

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