Jose Mourinho believes Manchester United have laid the foundations this season for "better years to come".

The club is pushing for a top-four finish in the Premier League, having already won the EFL Cup and with a Europa League semi-final against Celta Vigo next week.

"It doesn't matter what happens in terms of titles we win or don't win," he told Sky Sports. "I always feel that the season is very important for me, the players and the club.

"I would say this can be the first season of the next five or six or seven. It can be the first season of better years.

"And the reality is even in the first season of better years we won already and we have already the chance to do good things until the end of the season.

"If we manage to win the Europa League and in August to play the European Super Cup against the Champions League winner, it will be magnificent."