Manchester United Caught Training In Car Park Ahead Of Northampton Clash

It's been a tough last 10 days for Manchester United; Losing the Manchester derby, faltering to Feyenoord and being embarrassed by Watford. Jose Mourinho is keen to get his under fire team back to their best, starting with victory in the League Cup against Northampton Town, tonight. And the Portuguese manager is putting his team through their paces in a rather bizarre location.

Twitter user and United fan @hearunitedsing spotted Mourinho conducting a training session in what appears to be the car park of a service station - a far cry from the club's multi million pound AON training facility at Carrington.

We're not sure as to why Mourinho decided a car park en route to Northampton was the best place to do a spot of stretching. We sincerely hope jumpers were thrown down and a flyaway ball was introduced for an impromptu kickabout before tonight's EFL Cup tie at Sixfields. Rush goalies, three and in, the lot.

Topics: Football, Manchester United, EFL Cup, League Cup

Joe Baiamonte

Northerner. Assistant Editor of SPORTbible. Studied Journalism and Broadcasting in a portakabin on a car park of Salford University for three years. Believes football peaked with Serie A in the '90s and strong-arms pro wrestling references into as many articles as possible. Neymar once took 50 euros off me during a game of poker.

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