Clueless Rooney biggest problem for struggling Mourinho
Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney shakes a palm of manager Jose Mourinho as he is replaced off.
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LONDON: Of all a managerial dilemmas confronting Manchester United’s Jose Mourinho after 3 unbroken defeats, a destiny of his captain Wayne Rooney is by distant a many pressing.
The England captain, deployed in a executive midfield purpose this season, has been a marginal figure in a group struggling to jelly and his lifeless opening in a 3-1 better during Watford on Sunday led to widespread calls for him to be dropped.
Rooney mustered one shot, did not play a singular by round and combined usually dual chances for group friends with a 9 corners and giveaway kicks he took.
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His defensive grant was also negligible, unwell to make a singular tackle and induction one retard and one interception in a tetchy 90 mins during that his categorical priority seemed to be enchanting in a consistent discourse with arbitrate Michael Oliver.
“Alex Ferguson knew it some-more than 3 years ago…Wayne Rooney is no longer value a place in a Manchester United team,” maestro United viewer Jim White wrote in a Daily Telegraph. “Slow of suspicion and legs, United are a side now functioning as if using by custard and many of a censure lies with a continued selection, in a many vicious position in a team, of a male who is personification on his reputation.”
Mourinho has never been fearful to make tough decisions during his trophy-laden managerial career and he faces a outrageous one on a 30-year-old Rooney, who is 4 goals brief of overtaking Bobby Charlton as a club’s all-time heading scorer.
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Rooney has been a pivotal partial of United’s conflict given scoring a shining hat-trick opposite Fenerbahce on his entrance for a Old Trafford bar 12 years ago after nearing from Everton.
In new years, with his gait diminished, he has operated in an ever-deeper role. Former manager Louis outpost Gaal played him in a midfield towards a finish of final deteriorate and he filled that position with immaterial impact for England in this year’s gloomy Euro 2016 campaign.
Mourinho has opted to do a same, banking on Rooney’s operation of flitting and knowledge to emanate chances for strikers Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Marcus Rashford.
But his miss of mobility creates United predicted and easy to urge opposite and Mourinho contingency be tempted to play a crook Ander Herrera or a healthy holding midfielder such as Morgan Schneiderlin to concede Paul Pogba some-more leisure to get forward.
United fans have uttered their concerns about Rooney on amicable media and radio call shows in a rising groundswell of displeasure and Mourinho faces a moving few days in that to contemplate a situation.
Although Rooney was doubtful to be in a patrol to face third-tier Northampton Town in a League Cup on Wednesday, his preference for a Premier League diversion opposite champions Leicester City on Saturday has turn a manager’s blazing issue.
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