Jose Mourinho says Manchester United’s duo of Romelu Lukaku and Zlatan Ibrahimovic won’t play together until they are at their best.
Both played in United’s 2-2 draw with Burnley on Tuesday but struggled in the game.
And Mourinho, a former Real Madrid boss, said the two are not at their best yet and can’t play together.
“For it to happen, they both need to be in their best moment and they are not,” Mourinho said.
“Zlatan is a man with an incredible injury and an injury that a 20-year-old young man would suffer with. Imagine a man of 36 years old and so many miles in high level football…”
Mourinho added, “It is not easy. We did that against Burnley and will do it in some more matches if we need to do.
“For both of them to play together we really need them to be at their best level.”
United’s next game is against Southampton at the Old Trafford on December 30.
