Mourinho happy with his United squad

Jose Mourinho says he is happy with his Manchester United squad after completing the signing of France international Paul Pogba.

The boss wanted four top-quality arrivals to bolster his side and the club has managed to secure the signatures of Pogba, Eric Bailly, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan ahead of the Premier League kick-off at Bournemouth on Sunday.

There is expected to be some outgoing movement ahead of the deadline but Mourinho insists he needs options to deal with a busy fixture schedule that will soon include assignments in the Europa League and Capital One Cup.

"I’m really happy [with my squad]," he told MUTV. "It’s the first time I’ve worked with such a number of players because I’m used to working with 20 plus the keepers, and we have in the squad 23 plus the keepers – and even so we had to make decisions and let some players go on loan, and try to sell others. 

"But this group of 23 is a great group and I think in this moment – and I told them this – there is a little bit of frustration for the ones that I have not selected. They work hard to be in the match and they aren’t, and this is going to happen in the next two or three weeks because we have just one Premier League match. 

"But, in September, the Capital One Cup starts, the Europa League starts, we start playing three matches a week and then everybody is involved and the squad is good. The empathy between the guys is really good too, so I’m happy with the squad."

Mourinho is clearly also content with the work that has been undertaken by the board to back his judgement in the transfer market so emphatically.

"I think the club was fantastic," he added. "I couldn’t be happier with the way we did our market because we got four players that we really believe in and we thought about the profile – the tactical profile, the physical profile, the personality. 

"And we got them all before the start of the Premier League, when the transfer window only closes at the end of the month and it becomes normal – almost a tradition, that people delay and delay and delay. We did it before the end of the month, which I think is tremendous work by my board."