Jose Mourinho has given his most grounded indication that Manchester United need to re-sign Paul Pogba from Juventus by saying “you have smoke, you have fire”.
The Red Devils are accounted for to have concurred a world record £100m exchange for the 23-year-old Frenchman.
Pogba left Old Trafford in 2012 as a 19-year-old, with the Italian side paying a tribunal expense of just £800,000.
“I am not going to try to make you naive and believe that we are not trying for one player,” said Mourinho.
The Portuguese chief has made three signings so far this late spring, getting protector Eric Bailly from Villarreal, midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan from Borussia Dortmund and striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
At the point when gotten some information about the conceivable marking of Pogba, Mourinho answered: “We set four targets for us, we got three of them and we are going to get the fourth.
“We established the profile of four players to improve the squad, to give us more options, especially adapted to my way of thinking about football.
“Everybody speaks about one, but it wouldn’t be a surprise for me if it is not him and it is another one because we went for profile.
“We have two more options in front of us and we are going to close one.”
United’s FA Cup triumph last season was the primary bit of flatware the club has won since Sir Alex Ferguson resigned as chief in 2013.
Under the Scot, they won 13 Premier League titles, five FA Cups, and two Champions League titles in the space of 26 years.
“It is very important to forget the past three years and to focus on good times,” added Mourinho.
“I think that’s what everybody wants at the club, it is what every fan around the world wants but at the same time I think it is intelligent to understand that times are different and realities are different.
“I don’t think it’s possible for Manchester United to win so much in the next 20 years than in the past 20 years.
“There was a very important evolution in our Premier League.
“I want to bring the motivational levels up and bring the confidence back, but be intelligent and know the reality we face in the Premier League is different than 10, 20 years ago.”
Rooney was the subject of two fizzled exchange offers from Chelsea when Mourinho was the director in 2013.
“I am quite surprised with so many question marks around this guy,” said Mourinho. “He is the club captain, he is the manager’s captain, he is the players’ captain.
“I trust him a lot. I think he’s going to be a very important player for me and no problem for him.”
