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Mourinho is thinking about a move for Zlatan Ibrahimovic as one of his first moves in the job, as indicated by media reports, after the star Swedish focus forward played his last game for Paris Saint-Germain a week ago.
United at long last sacked Louis van Gaal on Monday, two days after the club won the FA Cup with triumph against Crystal Palace.
However, the Old Trafford club’s failure to qualify for the lucrative Champions League proved fatal to the Dutchman’s hopes of survival.
As talks between Mourinho's specialist Jorge Mendes and the club's official bad habit director Ed Woodward were set to proceed with, Old Trafford legend Eric Cantona addressed whether he was the right man for the employment.
"I adore Jose Mourinho, yet as far as the sort of football he plays, I don't think he is Manchester United," the Frenchman told the Guardian. Cantona included that he would have "cherished" to see Pep Guardiola assume control at the club.
Guardiola will rather assume control at Manchester City next season.
In the interim, vulnerability waited about the fate of van Gaal's agent Ryan Giggs, who had been seen as a possible successor to van Gaal yet was disregarded.
His previous Wales partner Robbie Savage was among the individuals who recommended that Giggs, who has put in 28 years at the club, ought to now search for circumstances past Old Trafford.
"In the event that I was Giggsy now I would hope to begin my vocation as a chief elsewhere," Savage said. "In the event that Giggsy can go out and settle on his own choices now, do well some place, he can return and the United employment will be his.