Wayne Rooney may not have featured in Jose Mourinho's manchester united starting eleven for some weeks now due to poor form, but the portugese coach has dropped claim of selling the England skipper. The 31 year old who is now playing the role of a game changer at manchester united has being a subject of interest from the chinese super league.
Speaking to Sky sports news on the decision of offloading his skipper, the united boss said; "No, never. I will never make that decision, 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 also thinks that Rooney's past success has brought about unfair expectation levels among supporters and
the media.
"I think he's paying for his success, 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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