“Do you know that [City were in for Sanchez]? Can you confirm that?
“I don’t know, I have no idea if they were interested or not, I’ve no idea.”
United make the short trip to the Etihad Stadium tomorrow (5.30pm) and Guardiola’s side will win the Premier League title if they secure all three points.
Mourinho will be keen to avoid that scenario playing out but he is solely focused on securing a second-place finish in the league.
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Man Utd Transfer News: Jose Mourinho is determined to finished second in the table
“My motivation is to finish second,” he said. “I still have the motivation of finishing top four, mathematically it’s not done.
“It’s a good distance [between United and fifth-placed Chelsea] but not done mathematically, so that’s the first objective, but after that I don’t hide.
“To finish second, third or fourth is exactly the same - you don’t win the title but qualify for the CL group stage, but I prefer to finish second than third, and third than fourth.
“We’ve been second for many, many months, so our objective is to fight for that and for that we need points. My objective for tomorrow is try to have points to finish second.”
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