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Mourinho confirms €100M man Pogba ready for Man Utd debut

Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has confirmed Paul Pogba will make his debut against Southampton tomorrow night.

Mourinho was quizzed about his €100 million man at today's media conference.

He said: “We played against Leicester with players with less training than him and we saw that match as a way to improve them and accelerate the process.

“With Paul it's a bit the same – not one single minute of any pre-season match but almost two weeks of work with us, sometimes with the group, sometimes separately, and the condition is okay to play some minutes.

“He has adapted really easily because he knows the club, knows everybody. He has no need to have time to adapt, but he'll need time to build his condition and his understanding of how the team plays and how he'll fit in with that.

Mourinho, however, insisted that no radical change was needed to accommodate the France international.

He explained: “We are not going to play with five at the back because with Juventus he played with five at the back. We are not going for dramatic changes. But yes there are changes in details in the game where we will have to change."

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