Mourinho reveals his thoughts as he closes in on matching this Fergie record

Jose Mourinho insists he doesn’t care about leading Manchester United to their best unbeaten run since Sir Alex Ferguson’s final season at the club.

The Red Devils take on Stoke City in the Premier League this weekend and can make it 17 games unbeaten if they avoid defeat at the Britannia Stadium.

United have recovered from a slow start under Mourinho, but the manager himself isn’t getting caught up in record-breaking runs.

Mourinho’s United side have been much improved of late

‘I don’t care about the unbeaten run,’ the Portuguese said in his press conference today.

‘We’re not going to play any match simply to try to be unbeaten for one more match, or to try and reach 18 or to try and reach 20, not at all.

‘We want to win matches, we try to win matches, we risk to win matches. If we lose, we lose and we lose the unbeaten run. But we’re not going to Stoke to defend our very nice unbeaten run.’