Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho feels England did not do what’s needed to ensure Wayne Rooney after he was imagined socializing in the early hours of the morning while on universal obligation last week. Mourinho said,
‘When my players go to the national team they belong to the national team. What happens there, for good or for bad, I don’t interfere. Sometimes they come back stronger than when they left us because something good happened there, something positive, a good performance, a good result”.
Rooney made an open expression of remorse on Wednesday after images were published of the striker searching worse for wear at the group lodging after last week’s triumph over Scotland at Wembley.
“The only thing I say is the player goes to the national team, he belongs to the national team – I learned since I was a kid, if someone lends me something I have to take care of it even better than if it was mine,” Mourinho told British media.
“You know – your friend lent you a pencil, you have to take care of the pencil better than if it was your pencil. So I think when one day if I become a national manager, I will try.”
“I am not saying I will be successful and I am not being critic with Gary (caretaker manager Gareth Southgate) or anyone,” Mourinho added.
“I get the occasion to wish Gary the best of luck but I think you have to build something to protect what is not yours, what someone lends you.”
Everyone’s focus will be on Rooney when Manchester United face Arsenal at Old Trafford on Saturday after the 31-year-old got tanked at a wedding gathering while on worldwide obligation last end of the week. Rooney was captured with members of the wedding party and later attempting to play a piano as a drinking session with different members of FA staff moved on into the center of the night. Mourinho did whatever it takes not to get drawn too profoundly into the controversy on Friday and followed up his comments by suggesting he didn’t censure England manager Gareth Southgate, who attempted to persuade Rooney to retire until tomorrow at 11pm. Mourinho said: ‘I don’t want to speak about it. But if you go one by one, to see where these 23 players were, some of them were in worse places than the hotel bar.’
