Chelsea boss Jose Mounrinho has drawn the
line on the prospect of having Manchester
United striker Wayne Rooney at Stamford
Bridge before the close of the transfer
window by midnight of September 2.
Wayne Rooney Has been the Subject of Many
After Claims He Had Requested to End His St Rooney, 27, played the whole 90 minutes of
Monday night
uneventful 0-0 draw between the Premier
League champions and ‘The Blues’ at Old
Trafford and was probably the brightest
player on the pitch. He was the one player on the pitch whose
name was chanted about by a cross section
of both sets of fans at the game last night
with the traveling fans rendering: “Wayne
Rooney, we’ll sign you next week.” Mourinho praised the old Trafford faithful
for getting behind their wantaway forward
amidst uncertainties concerning his future. “It was fantastic. In other countries it would
not be possible. It was very English,” he told
BBC Sport. Chelsea has had two offers for the England
international rejected by United, however,
the Portuguese, who had earlier said
Chelsea is also working on “plan B and C”
insists it’s high time the striker makes his
intentions clear. “This is a special club with special fans and I
think probably now he thinks he wants to
stay,” Mourinho told Sky Sports after the
match. “If that is his decision we will respect that
and say it is over. If now he does not want to
leave, we are out of the thing but we need
to know what is happening.” Rooney returned to United’s starting lineup,
after former manager Sir Alex Ferguson
revealed last season the striker, who joined
from Everton in 2004, wants to part ways
with the club. Interestingly, he started against his primary
suitor who would offer him a first-team
shirt as against the second fiddle many had
expected him to play for the champions this
season. Nevertheless, the new United boss, who had
said he would need Rooney “if for any
reason we (United) had an injury to Robin
(van Persie),” named the trio alongside
Danny Welbeck in his starting lineup, while
Mourinho started the cautious game with non of his recognised strikers. When asked by the BBC Sport whether
Chelsea will continue with their efforts to
sign the United striker, Mourinho said: “We
didn’t start the story. Someone started the
story by him saying he wanted to go to
Chelsea. So somebody has to finish it. One way or
another way. He has to say ‘I want to leave’
or ‘I want to stay.’ Asked how long he was prepared to wait
before drawing on his plan Bs and Cs,
Mourinho replied: “Twenty-four hours,
forty-eight hours.” “If you look at a manager like me, a club like
us and the people who works at the club
with me, we are not silly enough to try and
get a player from a big club that doesn’t
want to sell,” he added. “We are not silly enough to try something if
somebody didn’t start it.”
line on the prospect of having Manchester
United striker Wayne Rooney at Stamford
Bridge before the close of the transfer
window by midnight of September 2.
Wayne Rooney Has been the Subject of Many
After Claims He Had Requested to End His St Rooney, 27, played the whole 90 minutes of
Monday night
uneventful 0-0 draw between the Premier
League champions and ‘The Blues’ at Old
Trafford and was probably the brightest
player on the pitch. He was the one player on the pitch whose
name was chanted about by a cross section
of both sets of fans at the game last night
with the traveling fans rendering: “Wayne
Rooney, we’ll sign you next week.” Mourinho praised the old Trafford faithful
for getting behind their wantaway forward
amidst uncertainties concerning his future. “It was fantastic. In other countries it would
not be possible. It was very English,” he told
BBC Sport. Chelsea has had two offers for the England
international rejected by United, however,
the Portuguese, who had earlier said
Chelsea is also working on “plan B and C”
insists it’s high time the striker makes his
intentions clear. “This is a special club with special fans and I
think probably now he thinks he wants to
stay,” Mourinho told Sky Sports after the
match. “If that is his decision we will respect that
and say it is over. If now he does not want to
leave, we are out of the thing but we need
to know what is happening.” Rooney returned to United’s starting lineup,
after former manager Sir Alex Ferguson
revealed last season the striker, who joined
from Everton in 2004, wants to part ways
with the club. Interestingly, he started against his primary
suitor who would offer him a first-team
shirt as against the second fiddle many had
expected him to play for the champions this
season. Nevertheless, the new United boss, who had
said he would need Rooney “if for any
reason we (United) had an injury to Robin
(van Persie),” named the trio alongside
Danny Welbeck in his starting lineup, while
Mourinho started the cautious game with non of his recognised strikers. When asked by the BBC Sport whether
Chelsea will continue with their efforts to
sign the United striker, Mourinho said: “We
didn’t start the story. Someone started the
story by him saying he wanted to go to
Chelsea. So somebody has to finish it. One way or
another way. He has to say ‘I want to leave’
or ‘I want to stay.’ Asked how long he was prepared to wait
before drawing on his plan Bs and Cs,
Mourinho replied: “Twenty-four hours,
forty-eight hours.” “If you look at a manager like me, a club like
us and the people who works at the club
with me, we are not silly enough to try and
get a player from a big club that doesn’t
want to sell,” he added. “We are not silly enough to try something if
somebody didn’t start it.”
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