Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho spent £140m this summer
Manchester United spent £140million on three players long before the start of the season.
They also landed Romelu Lukaku, Victor Lindelof and Nemanja Matic before PSG’s hostile signing of Neymar from Barcelona.
The financial strength of PSG and Barca’s subsequent efforts to reinvest the £200m publicly earned from the Neymar deal, saw transfer fees rise towards the end of the window.
And Mourinho is delighted he landed the likes of Lukaku - a £75m arrival from Everton - before the figures exploded.
“It was not a perfect market because perfect is when you architect the moves and it goes 100 per cent in your direction, which is really difficult to happen with everyone but I cannot call it perfect,” Mourinho said.
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“I still feel a weakness in the mobility in my squad.
“It was a good market, we were successful, we did it well and on time and in the right timing because if you do that after Neymar the numbers change for everybody so I think we were quite happy.”
United have won all three of their Premier League games to kick of the season on a high.
They travel to Stoke today (5.30pm) seeking to end a run of four winless league outings at the bet365 Stadium.
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