Mourinho warns that there will be “no miracles” ahead of the PL opener

The Red Devil boss told MUTV: “There are no miracles. The players with a proper pre-season, they are fit and they are strong.

“For example, Alexis has played lots of matches and lots of minutes, he is more than ready.

“But you cannot have the players that arrived on the last Monday, after World Cup semi-finals, finals and three weeks of holidays, you cannot expect them to be fit.

“Apart from that, we have some injuries. Some are expected and some are unexpected.

“[Nemanja] Matic, we weren’t expecting him to be injured and needing a surgery after the World Cup. [Diogo] Dalot, we knew he had a surgery on his meniscus and we have to wait a couple of months before he is ready.”

Mourinho also made it clear that it was time to be serious seeing as the Premier League is officially about to kick off.

According to him, every point matters because “you don’t know what is going to happen in the end of the season.”

“Now it’s serious stuff,” Mourinho said.

“It’s not anymore about friendlies, it’s not anymore about preparation, it’s about points. Any point can be crucial – you don’t know what is going to happen in the end of the season.

“You have to try your best to get points and even with the difficulties that we had with our pre-season, now I don’t think is the time to be speaking about that. It’s time just to say, ‘Tomorrow we have a Premier League match and we have to play to win it.”