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Jose Mourinho acknowledged Manchester United must sign better players to avoid a similar Champions League humiliation next season.

La Liga's fifth-placed side Sevilla deservedly defeated United 2-1 at Old Trafford on Tuesday night to qualify for the quarter-finals and leave United's campaign hinging on the FA Cup.

Mourinho seemed to be specifically booed by a section of United supporters as he approached the Old Trafford tunnel at full-time on a night he made some contentious decisions. Marouane Felliaini started over Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford's role was changed after he struck twice in the weekend win over Liverpool.

The United manager was asked if he needed to spend more money in the transfer window to recruit better players or train more and replied: "Everything, everything has to change. Everybody spends money, right? Not just us, right? It's a natural process, every team invests. It's not a change for the sake of changing. It's a natural process and we're not the only team that invests money, all clubs invest money in players."

"I told yesterday that it would be a disappointment if we would lose the match," Mourinho said. "I don't want to make a drama out of it, we don't have time for that, we have a match on Saturday, we have no time to be sad for more than 24 hours and that's football.

"That is not the end of the world. I sit in this chair twice in the Champions League and I knock Man United out at home at Old Trafford. I sit in this chair with Porto, Man United out, I sit in this chair with Real Madrid, Man United out. So is not something new for the club and of course being Manchester United manager and losing a Champions League tie at home is a disappointment, obviously."

"I don't think the performance was bad," he added. "I think the intention and the way we started was really good and really positive. Then after 10, 15 minutes of that success, I would say without goals, Sevilla has a good team and they can hide the ball. They had players in midfield that are really good at that and they did that for the majority of the tie.

"In the first-half I don't remember a dangerous situation for them, so I think it was a good controlled performance by them but without any kind of danger.

"We had again a good start in the second-half and again we had chances to score and the first goal would always change the direction of the game and the first goal was for them.

"Sometimes I am lucky with changes and other times other managers are lucky with their changes, I think it was a good change by Vincenzo to bring on Ben Yedder and when they scored the first goal the game is completely different."

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