The answers in interviews are getting shorter.
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The Red Devils captain is a player the Portuguese boss has longed to work with throughout his career, but has so far struggled to get the best out of him at Old Trafford. He is even starting to feel sorry for himself.
Eric Bailly, who communicates with Mourinho in Spanish, has described his new manager as a “father figure”. A number of the club’s leading players have been a major factor in United falling six points behind bitter rivals Manchester City.
Three losses in nine days led to widespread criticism of Mourinho’s management style and the makeup of his United team.
United avoided the ignominy of a fourth straight defeat and exiting the EFL Cup to lower-league opposition on Wednesday, with Michael Carrick, Herrera and Marcus Rashford securing a 3-1 return to winning ways at Northampton.
“The only thing that upsets me a little bit is the criticism of my players”. “It is something that is completely out of my control”.
“It’s a feeling of frustration but with me it’s fine and with the Einsteins it’s fine”.
“Not many teams during the Premier League history they could do that, ” Mourinho, who retained the title in 2006 with Chelsea, said. Club’s captain and legend is in a bad form and even fans turned their back on him, but it remains to be seen if Mourinho have the strength to remove him from the first eleven.
Jose Mourinho could suffer three consecutive league defeats for only the second time in his career, having previously done so at Chelsea past year.
“Wayne Rooney’s form is like Man United form”.
He’s a champion. I don’t know (whether Rooney would be in his team), I love my players, and I don’t change my players with anybody else. The training has been really good and it’s interesting to see how he prepares for games with tactics, how we approach games, and it’s been really good. We are not Wayne Rooney and we all started well, we all won four matches and we all lost three matches in a week, so that’s not Wayne Rooney and to be honest he didn’t play against Feyenoord, so he was not directly involved in that match.
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Rooney – who has twice collected the Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year award – will likely endure a tough battle forcing his way back into the first team should he be omitted against the Foxes this Saturday. Zero goals, zero assists and a passenger in midfield mean Saturday’s game against Leicester will be the flawless chance for Pogba to prove his critics wrong.
