Jose Mourinho has bemoaned the timing of the season's first Manchester derby. His side host Manchester City at Old Trafford on September 10, after the international break.
Most of Mourinho's first team squad are currently away with their national teams, and Mourinho said that his South American Contingents, the likes of Sergio Romero, Marcos Rojo and Antonio Valencia will only return to Carrington 24hours before the game.
He told MUTV, "We keep eight outfield players and Sam Johnstone as the goalkeeper. We are going to lose the others and we don't know the way they train, the way they recover, the life they are going to have with their national teams.
Some are coming back on the Monday before the Manchester City Match, but some are coming back on Friday. The day before Manchester City, we will still have Sergio Romero, Marcos Rojo and Antonio Valencia arriving.
It will be a complicated process but we know it is like this when we have these players. And I would love all of the players to go, because it would mean that everybody is being selected for their national teams.
Mourinho's United faces off with Guardiola's City on September 10, in what has been dubbed MANCHESTER CLASSICO!!!
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