Jose Mourinho: Manchester United have other targets if Paul Pogba deal collapses

Juventus and France midfielder Pogba is Mourinho's main target as Manchester United try to complete a world record £100m-plus transfer deal for a figure who departed Old Trafford four years ago for a nominal compensation fee.

But United have also been linked with Chelsea’s Nemanja Matic and Blaise Matuidi of Paris Saint-Germain as contingency plans if the Pogba transfer fails to come to fruition.

The add-ons in the fee apparently include a sum of £18.4m to be handed over to Pogba's agent Mino Raiola, which may or may not be holding up the transfer.

United will apparently stump up half of the agent's whopping fee, but Juventus have told them the full amount must be met to complete the transfer. If they did, it would carry the transfer cost to almost £110m, including Raiola's fee.

Mourinho has praised the United board and executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward for achieving "75 per cent" of their work so far in the transfer market having landed Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Eric Bailly and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

“We know the profile of the player we want, and we have three faces that fit that profile,” said Mourinho during the club's pre-season trip to China.

“I’m really confident Mr Woodward and the owners can get the profile of the player I think the squad needs."

“I don’t confirm and I don’t deny,” added Mourinho when quizzed about Pogba.

“I cannot tell. First of all because I don’t think its correct to speak about players from other clubs. He’s a Juventus player not a Manchester United player.

“The only thing I can say is that my board, my directors, did a fantastic job to do 75 per cent of the job I asked them to do.

“I asked them for four profiles of players, I gave them a few options and they did for me 75 per cent of the job and we just have 25 per cent to do before August 31.

“So we are in a great position to do what I consider will be a great market for us. So we are calm.”

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