“If he has to stay at home, he stays at home, but that doesn’t mean that you don’t trust him or you have a problem (with him)”.
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Observers have called into question Mourinho’s tactics and team selections, while there have been suggestions the manager’s criticism of individual players has not gone down well in the dressing room.
“Honestly”, Mourinho said, “I think there was a Wayne before the Slovakia-England and a Wayne after Slovakia-England”.
The England and Red Devils captain is in woeful form – with many fans calling for the forward to be dropped by Jose Mourinho. “Tomorrow I’ll check. If it’s nothing serious he’ll play”.
“He is a great manager, intelligent and a fantastic person”, Ranieri added.
The manager, who said Luke Shaw faces a late fitness test but that Anthony Martial is out “because of a contusion in the calf and in the ankle area”, is relishing the difficulty of challenging for the title.
“Sometimes, maybe not here, but at another team, also I push to provoke the reaction of the player. there’s always a psychology”. I am helping so many people.
“We are a team”.
Wayne Rooney is not in a good place at Manchester United.
“That said, we know it will be a hard for match for Leicester also”.
“We had a bad week, a bad eight days where we’ve lost three games, and it’s important now we react well to that and come through that”. You have to cope with it, you have to realise you are very lucky to be in our position.
Leicester manager, Claudio Ranieri, had revealed that the 29-year-old was a doubt for the United game but will be massively disappointed by recent events, with the Foxes set to take on Porto in their second group game of the Champions League at the King Power Stadium. I don’t understand being in this club and giving a different message.
“If you remember my words, I said something like I am not playing defensively with my words because I know that it is hard”.
On the surface it may look like the team is aiming to bounce back from a disappointing 4-2 loss to Chelsea midweek, but the truth is that the side was mostly changed, and it was never a competition we had any designs on winning.
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“But I knew – and I admit immediately – that was a very risky approach”.
