Jose Mourinho reveals truth about a return to Manchester United for Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Jose Mourinho has ruled out a return for Zlatan Ibrahimovic to solve Manchester United’s goalscoring problems, insisting he has total faith in Romelu Lukaku.

Lukaku and United’s other strikers - Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford and Alexis Sanchez - have managed just 10 goals between them this season.

Mourinho has been linked with bringing back Ibrahimovic, who has successfully rehabilitated himself at LA Galaxy, but he insists the Swedish star will not be coming back to Old Trafford.

When asked if he would re-sign Ibrahimovic, Mourinho said: “No, no.”

Lukaku is enduring an eight-game goalscoring drought and Mourinho insists it is only a matter of time before he hits form again.

“I always feel that, I always feel that every game,” said the United boss. “One day will be the game and one day he will score and one day his confidence levels will be back to normal, which clearly they are not, but I always feel that.”

Mourinho feels he also has little option to play Lukaku as his No 9 because Sanchez is still injured and he prefers to use Rashford out wide.

“Well against Juventus, I couldn’t give him a break, I don’t think Carrick can play as a striker, so against Juventus we played with the players that we did,” he said.

“If we decided to give a rest to Lukaku and play Rashford, then who plays as a winger?

“We are not in the best moment to try to think about resting players or try to find solutions, the solutions is to use the players we have.”

Lukaku will hope to end his scoring drought when Man United entertain the Belgian striker's former club Everton at Old Trafford on Sunday.