Jose Mourinho has warned his Manchester United stars they have to get used to "squad life".

After using 22 players in the 5-2 win over Galatasaray in Gothenburg Mourinho admitted he needs every one of his stars to step up when they are called on.

“Of course Marcus Rashford did well tonight and Ibra showed glimpses of what he can bring," Mourinho said. "But Fellaini and Schneiderlin have trained for two days and I prefer that they are on the pitch.

"If they were not in my plans I would not give them one single minute. We are going to play 60 matches. You cannot do it with 11 players.

"To be in the squad you have to understand the squad is more important than the individual. You have to be ready. Everything is part of the squad life.

Mourinho handed Zlatan Ibrahimovic (r) his United debut (
Image:
AMA/Getty)

"The most important thing was to play and give minutes to the players.

“They need to play. We lost the week in China and some of the boys who played today trained two days.

“We made the decision to give them 30-45 mins feeling that it would be better than a double training session.

Manchester United 5-2 Galatasaray: Best pictures

“There was not a long time to work or offer new principles. We have a game against Leicester next week and the Premier league
in a couple of weeks. We need time and don’t have time.

“To train against opposition like Galatasaray is the best we can do. I’m really happy with the mistakes we made as we
can work on them.

Ibrahimovic and Rooney played their first game together a week before the Community Shield (
Image:
AMA/Getty)

“Tomorrow (Sunday) they are off then Monday double training session. I will play 22 players, I don’t care about the
results too much.

“I think everyone gave everything to improve. Even guys that came on with the 4-2, I said forget the result as they needed 30-40 mins to play high tempo. I’m happy with the opposition tonight because they have played six matches more than us."

poll loading

Will Zlatan Ibrahimovic fire Manchester United to the title this season?

19000+ VOTES SO FAR