Wayne Rooney and Jose Mourinho have a touchy dilemma on their hands. Rooney played the full 90 minutes on Wednesday against third-division Northampton Town in the League Cup, a second-rate competition in which most of the Premier League’s biggest stars don’t play. The question now is whether Mourinho will keep him out there for United’s Premier League match Saturday morning against defending champion Leicester. According to the Associated Press, Mourinho was asked twice about what he wanted from Rooney before the Northampton game:“Goals,” he said. In his forthcoming book “Jose Mourinho: Up Close and Personal,” soccer journalist and Chelsea fan Robert Beasley described a fairly humorous conversation Mourinho had with Beasley’s son during Chelsea’s preseason trip to Washington in the summer of 2013.

Source: Washington Post September 23, 2016 13:41 UTC