Jose Mourinho reveals Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Eric Bailly could return for Manchester United's Champions League trip to Sevilla
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Eric Bailly could be fit for Manchester United's Champions League trip to Seville later this month, Jose Mourinho has revealed.
Ibrahimovic has been sidelined since Boxing Day, while Bailly has not featured for United since November 5, following ankle surgery.
But United boss Mourinho revealed the pair could be in contention to face Seville on February 21, for the away leg of their last 16 tie.
"They are working on the pitch but not yet with us as a group so they are not very close to a return," said Mourinho.
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"I want to believe that by Champions League time, around the end of the month, they will be back."
Mourinho also played down talk of Zlatan making a mid-season switch to the MLS.
The Swede has been linked with a move to LA Galaxy, but Mourinho insists that is not a conversation that has been had.
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“I don’t speak with players about media news. I see him every day, I am not working directly with him, for example today I was watching his work.
“He never mentioned absolutely anything to me, not an opinion, comment nothing at all, so I presume nothing is true in the news because I would probably be first to know from him, so I presume nothing.”