Jose Mourinho has suggested Manchester United should not
be worried about selling Wayne Rooney to Chelsea and insists there have been no
discussions regarding the future of Juan Mata.
Chelsea have failed with two bids for Rooney this summer
amid reports United have no intention of selling the England international to
another Premier League club.
The two rivals meet at Old Trafford on Monday night, live
on Sky Sports 1, and speculation has claimed Chelsea will make a further bid
for Rooney after the game.
Mourinho does not want to see the 27-year-old sold abroad
and believes Rooney will be the 'final piece in the jigsaw' if he lures the
forward to Stamford Bridge.
"To me it is not a difficult decision because you
want very much to keep Rooney or you don't want to keep him?" said
Mourinho.
"But that old-fashioned mentality of, 'I don't sell
players to clubs in the same country' - I think doesn't help.
"To me it is not a difficult decision because you
want very much to keep Rooney or you don't want to keep him? But that
old-fashioned mentality of, 'I don't sell players to clubs in the same country'
- I think doesn't help."
Jose Mourinho
"Sometimes you push players abroad when you should
be keeping them in your league because then you are contributing to making your
league the best league.
"You see in Italy it happens every season without
any problems. Filippo Inzaghi played for Juventus, Milan. From the big players,
only Francesco Totti stayed for life. Andrea Pirlo - Inter, Milan,
Juventus."
Mourinho, who is optimistic of completing a deal for
Tottenham target Willian, added: "We are going to get a maximum of two
players in this transfer window. If we get the second piece (Rooney), it will
be the final piece."
Asked why Chelsea will bid for a third time, Mourinho
said: "We make the bid and they say no again. What do we lose? One
email."
It has been suggested that Mata could be a makeweight in
the deal for Rooney and Mourinho on Friday insisted the Spain playmaker was not
for sale
"That's hypothetical, because they didn't ask,"
Mourinho responded when asked about what would happen if United wanted Mata.
"The two answers we got from Man United is 'we don't
accept the bid', 'we're not interested in selling the player'.
"That's the only official contact we had with Man
United. Till Monday, we have nothing more to add to it."
Mourinho also cited his own example of selling William
Gallas to Arsenal during his first spell as Chelsea manager as a reason why
United should not be afraid of letting Rooney move to west London.
He continued: "Players are sometimes unhappy because
they want new contracts and at other times they are unhappy because they want
to leave and that is a different situation.
"Other times it's because they really want to go. I
was so sad about William Gallas. He was fundamental for us when we won titles.
"He said he wants, he wants, he wants and we
couldn't stop him, so we decided not to stop him.
"As you know, in this club it wasn't an economical
problem, it was just the player wanted to go. Ricardo Carvalho and John Terry
were playing central defence all the time and he wanted to be first choice.
"He was playing many matches in a position that
wasn't his best position, he was playing left-back and sometimes Wayne Bridge
was playing, so he wasn't happy. So we thought it was a fair situation to sell
him in the end.
"I had no trouble selling him to a rival. It happens
all the time in Europe."
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