Guess who, Jose? Watch the Man United manager struggle to recognise his own stars when shown pictures of them as kids

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Jose Mourinho looks like the most relaxed man in the world as he lounges back on his chair, his legs crossed and his hand on his knee.

The Manchester United manager is about be given an intense grilling as he attempts to identify members of his squad… from pictures of them as children, before giving his first impressions of his players.

The former Chelsea boss, well known for handling the pressure situations in big matches, cuts a confident figure as he is confronted with pictures of some of his main men taken straight from the family album.

First up was captain Wayne Rooney, an easy one for the 53-year-old, who answered correctly without fuss.

He said: ‘He’s a great kid. I still call him a kid. He doesn’t behave like a star, he doesn’t behave as the top scorer in the England national team, doesn’t behave as the captain. He’s just a very nice kid.’

Zlatan Ibrahimovic followed, with Mourinho again guessing right straight away.

He said on first meeting the Swedish superstar at Inter Milan: ‘It was a long time ago. I go to Inter and my impression of him as a player was “wow, he’s much better than I thought.”

‘And again, a guy who sells an image to the world that is not him, he’s a very nice guy.’

The third picture has the Portuguese stumped, but he gets it right at the third time of asking, as a young Paul Pogba stands in between his brothers.

‘Marcus. Marcus Rashford! No? Eric (Bailly)? The little one is Paul? Oh my god he was so little.

‘One of the happiest guys I’ve found in football. He is a guy in love with life, in love with who he is. He enjoys so much to be the star he is. He is a great, great boy.’

Next up, a sheepish looking kid with a full-on fringe and pudding-bowl hairuct. It is none other than goalkeeper David De Gea.

Mourinho recounts: ‘I met him when I was in Real Madrid, and he was coming for the first time as goalkeeper at Atletico Madrid. I thought immediately he was fantastic.’

And last of all, perhaps the easiest of all because he has barely changed since, is the 20-year-old Anthony Martial.

Mourinho said when confronted with a picture of the young France star: ‘Easy, it’s Martial. Easy. He seems a bit shy, very quiet, but if you know him he’s not shy, he’s not quiet.’