{{Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has given Wayne Rooney 48 hours to decide if he wants to leave Manchester United and move to Stamford Bridge.}}<\/p>\n
United insist Rooney is not for sale and he was outstanding as the sides played out a goalless draw on Monday.<\/p>\n
“The person that started the story has to finish the story. For the good of everyone it is time to finish the story,” said Mourinho.<\/p>\n
“One way or another he has to say ‘I want to leave’ or ‘I want to stay’.”<\/p>\n
He suggested the 27-year-old striker himself was the catalyst for Chelsea’s move saying “he told someone very important in his career” that he wanted to leave United.<\/p>\n
Asked how long he was prepared to wait before moving on to other targets – with Anzhi Makhachkala’s Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o understood to be the alternative – Mourinho replied: “Twenty-four hours, 48 hours.”<\/p>\n
He added: “If you look at a manager like me, a club like us and the people who work at the club with me, we are not silly enough to try and get a player from a big club that doesn’t want to sell.<\/p>\n
“We are not silly enough to try something if somebody didn’t start it.”<\/p>\n
He added: “After that, if he wants to leave he has to say – or if he has decided now he doesn’t want to leave any more then he has to say.”<\/p>\n
The former Everton forward was given huge support throughout by United’s fans and indeed Chelsea’s supporters who want him to switch to Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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