Chelsea Manager Jose Mourinho has blamed David Moyes for Wayne Rooney’s wanting to join Chelsea in an astonishing outburst ahead of their trip to Manchester United. He said: “They are against me? I didn’t say [to Rooney] you will be a second choice for me. And they are against me? We are trying to get a player that a manager told ‘You will be a second option’ for him. We are not going for Van Persie. They don’t have to be against me. If I say Ramires is a second option for me and he plays when [Frank] Lampard is tired or injured, if someone comes here to get Ramires, nobody is upset.” Asked if that made the Rooney saga Moyes’s fault, Mourinho snapped back: “Of course.” He later tried to soften the blow, claiming he was “not criticising” his opposite number but he also insisted it was vital for any player who felt they were not first choice to be kept happy. Mourinho said: “Of course big teams must have second choices. Big players, too. The point is if the players are happy to accept that situation or the players are not happy.” The Portuguese insisted that it was not Chelsea’s intention to rile United by pursuing Rooney so publicly. “If in this moment, we want to upset them as some people were saying, now we’d be making a bid for the player every day – before the match,” he said. “Now we are quiet, we have no contact. Nothing, nothing at all. Tuesday, we will have another feeling.”
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 02:22:50 +0000
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