Mourinho orders Zlatan to put his feet up

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been ordered to rest by Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho.

Ibrahimovic played his 116th and final game for Sweden against Belgium at Euro 2016.

And while most go his Old Trafford team-mates head out for an international break, Mourinho has ordered his summer signing to put his feet up.

“I give the other guys, who are not selected for the national teams, two days off,” he said.

“And I give four days to Zlatan because at 34 years old, you need to rest.”

Ibrahimovic can’t wait to be involved in his first Manchester derby on September 10th but Mourinho admits the international break doesn’t aid planning for the big match.

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Sergio Romero, Marcos Rojo and Antonio Valencia are only due to return from national duty 24 hours before the match.

“It will be a complicated process but we know it is like this when we have these players,” added Mourinho.

“And I would love all of the players to go because it would mean that everybody is being selected for their national teams.

“We are going to lose the others and we don’t know the way they train, the way they recover, the life they are going to have with their national teams.”