Jose Mourinho is adamant that no matter what the situation is, Wayne Rooney will remain at the lkub. Rooney who turns 31 on Monday, started his side’s 4-1 Europa League win over Fenerbahce on Thursday but has been left out of the first XI for the last three Premier League matches with growing ccalls for the United captain to be sold.
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Mou has insisted that he won't be the one to bring the curtains down on the Englishman:
“No, never. I will never make that decision,” he told Sky Sports News. “A player of his stature, a player of his history in the club will never get to a point where the club or manager want to make that decision for him. I put him on the bench for three matches in a row. That is hard for him, hard for me, so that is being ruthless, to put in my mind the interests of the team in front of the player, prestige, status."
"In this case even a legend. To put on the bench a player with the numbers he has for club and country is hard.“But as we were saying before, this is an industry where the people who lead, sometimes in a correct decision, sometimes not correct decisions, but in our mind the decisions we think is the best for the team.”
Mourinho believes that a constant change in position for him has contributed to the decline in form:
“I think it then created a bit of a doubt in relation to his role, to his position, to his future and I think players especially in moments of less confidence, they need to be clear in his head,” he said. “He cannot be jumping from number six to number nine, or number nine to number 10, or number nine to number six. For me, he is an attacking player."
“Play number six, play in midfield, not with me unless we need it and unless we ask him to do that, but with me, I want the ideas completely clear. He is a second striker, plays behind the striker or as a striker. That’s what I think is Wayne Rooney.”
Mourinho also suggested that Rooney's high standard makes it hard for supporters and the media to cope without:
“I think he’s paying for his success,” he said. “He had so many successes in his career. He brought his expectation levels to such a level that people probably think he has to perform in every match, every week, every month, every season at the same level. For me, that’s a problem."
“I think in this country it happens to everyone, it is just your nature. You build people, you kill people, you build again and you destroy again! And I think it is just the nature of the business, especially in football.”
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