Mourinho: Rooney is staying

Jose Mourinho has no intention of letting Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney leave this season. The 31-year-old's Old Trafford future has long been under scrutiny and intensified after he became the club's all-time top scorer earlier in the month. Rooney has been widely linked with a move to China, potentially before their transfer window shuts at the end of February. However, Mourinho says Rooney will be staying at United for the rest of the campaign, as will Ashley Young having admitted at the weekend that the winger could leave. "(Young) is staying," he said. "Definitely stays, he is selected for tomorrow. It's finished, he stays with me until the end of the season." Asked if Rooney would see out the season as well, Mourinho said: "Yeah. We don't have players in, we don't have players out." "We lost two players from the squad. You can say Memphis Depay and Morgan Schneiderlin did not play a lot, but the reality is they played some matches and when they played, other people didn't. And when they played, others were rested. "When Schneiderlin played against Feyenoord, played against Northampton, played against Fenerbahce, in these days it meant that Paul Pogba or (Michael)...

from timesofmalta.com http://ift.tt/2jqFYRI
via IFTTT