Jose Mourinho says he “trusts Wayne Rooney completely” and believes the Manchester United captain remains an important player despite dropping him for the 4-1 win over Leicester.<\/p>\n
It was the first time Mourinho had dropped Rooney, and United were 4-0 up before half-time against the champions.<\/p>\n
“He’s my man, I trust him completely. He’s as happy as I am at this moment and that’s the team,” Mourinho said.<\/p>\n
“He’s a big player for me, for United, a big player for this country.”<\/p>\n
Rooney was last dropped for a Premier League game on Boxing Day last year.<\/p>\n
Without him on Saturday, United overcame a slow first 20 minutes to score through Chris Smalling, Juan Mata, Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba.<\/p>\n
Mourinho introduced Rooney for the final seven minutes and the manager was frustrated by further questioning in his post-match news conference.<\/p>\n
“If I don’t play Rashford you ask me why, if I don’t play Jesse Lingard you ask me why and you prefer always to ask why somebody is not playing,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes when I read you, I feel I know nothing about football.<\/p>\n
“But there is one thing I know and that is the rules of the game and I can only start with 11. Until somebody tells me there is a change to that I can only start with 11.”<\/p>\n
–<\/p>\n
Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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