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MANCHESTER, England -- Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho said Friday the club will wrap up its offseason transfer business by signing a very good midfield player before the opening weekend of the Premier League.Whether that player is Paul Pogba remains to be seen.The France midfielder has been heavily linked with a world-record transfer to United, which sold him to Juventus for less than 1 million pounds in 2012, and the move is reported to be close.Asked if he was confident that Pogba would join United, Mourinho said: Pogba is a Juventus player until officially he isnt. We stay like this.Honestly, the market closes on Aug. 31, but I think my club is trying to do everything to close our market before Aug. 14. Normally next week we will have our squad closed.Uniteds first match in the Premier League is against Bournemouth on Aug. 14. Europes summer transfer window closes on Aug. 31.Mourinho already has signed striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, attacking midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan and center back Eric Bailly.I think our market was good, Mourinho said. We decided to bring in four players, not 10; we decided to bring four that are Man United level.We have a young central defender that needs time to be a top one but he has potential and we believe a lot in him. We bought a creative player, a player we know the qualities he has. We bought a super striker. And we are going to get a very good midfield player.United starts the season with a match against Leicester in the Community Shield at Wembley Stadium on Sunday. The annual game pits the current Premier League champion (Leicester) against the winner of last seasons FA Cup (United).Mourinho believes some of his players will be undercooked going into the new season, pointing to the canceled friendly against Manchester City in China last month that denied members of his squad some crucial game time.The Portuguese coach also said it is taking time to change the mindset of his players after Uniteds two years under his predecessor, Louis van Gaal.Its a difficult situation to change the dynamic, Mourinho said. It would be easier for me to have 20 new players and to start from zero. For two years, they had some principles of play that are not my principles of play, clearly are not. 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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Nearly 2-plus months after the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, hundreds of workers still havent been paid and are planning to sue the local organizing committee to get their money.Among those late getting paid are about 100 freelance contractors who worked as stadium announcers, show producers and DJs, and several hundred others who worked for the Olympic News Service, which produced written summaries about the sports and athletes at the Olympics and subsequent Paralympics.Im working with a legal firm that is already representing someone involved with Rio 2016, so they have a pretty good handle what is going on, Rocky Bester, a South African freelance show producer, told The Associated Press in an interview.Bester, a spokesman for the 100 contractors, said hes never experienced such problems at previous Olympics. This was his seventh, and he said all hes received from Rio organizers is silence and excuses.Weve had robust conversations at other Olympics about payments, but its always been an open conversation, Bester said. What is happening here is that no one is talking back. Were sitting in the dark. Were mushrooms at the moment.He termed it a basic lack of respect.Rio Olympic officials blamed the delays on late payments from their own sponsors, the Rio city hall and the International Olympic Committee.We are paying, but not all the money we need to have for payments has been received, Rio spokesman Mario Andrada told The Associated Press. We are struggling a bit in making the ends meet.Cash-flow problems, budget cuts and cost overruns dogged organizers throughout the run-up to the Olympics. As the games opened on Aug. 5, organizers needed millions in a bailout from the city and federal governments, breaking a promise to use only private money to fund the $2.8 billion operating budget.The amounts owed the freelancers are relatively modest. Bester declined to offer figures but said hed been paid about half of what he was owed, but said others have received nothing. He said many are living off credit cards, running up high-interest debt.The guys who are suffering are the youngsters, Beester said.dddddddddddd Its their first Olympic Games, its a prestigious thing. The last thing that is going to enter their head is they are not going to get paid.Bester said some contractors were asked to buy their own air tickets, and many have not been reimbursed.Andrada, the Rio organizing committee spokesman, said several first-class international sponsors owe organizers, but he declined to name them.Some of the payment delays were due to a monthlong strike at Brazilian banks, which ended Oct. 7, Andrada said. Reports that organizers were slow to pay bills created a herd movement with creditors putting pressure on us, he added.Andrada estimated that Rio organizers owed creditors in the area of 100 million Brazilian reals ($32 million).He said the organizing committee had downsized from 5,000 employees when the games opened to about 400. The entity will be dissolved next year with only lawyers remaining to settle any disputed claims.Others have blamed some problems on outgoing Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes, who was credited by the IOC with driving the games. He seems to have moved on from Olympic problems.Paes office said he is headed to New Yorks Columbia University on a short-term teaching assignment when he leaves office at the end of the year. His hand-picked candidate to succeed him -- Pedro Paulo -- was badly beaten in an October election.Paes committed a reserve fund of 150 million reals ($47 million) to help pay organizing committee debts. Now he appears to have backed off.Well meet our obligations as long as we have the resources, and they are really needed. To do this, the organizing committee needs to show us their audited expenses, Paes told the Rio newspaper O Globo.The newspaper Folha de S.Paulo has also reported that thousands of fans have yet to receive payments for ticket refunds. Some who have been reimbursed say the amounts dont match what they believe they are owed.Everybody will be paid, Andrada said. The trouble is the delay. We will pay the money. ' ' '