Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho insists there's no plans to sell Wayne Rooney.
Shanghai SIPG boss Sven Goran-Eriksson will try and tempt Rooney, 30, with a whopping £80million deal to quit Old Trafford and finish off his career in the Far East.
But Old Trafford chief Mourinho, 53, when asked if he would ever offload his skipper, said: “No, never.
“I will never make that decision. A player of his stature, a player of his history in the club will never go to point where club or manager want to make that decision for him.
“I put him [Rooney] on the bench for three matches in a row. That is hard for him, hard for me, so that is being ruthless, to put in my mind the interests of the team in front of the player, prestige, status. In this case even legend. To put on bench a player with the numbers he has for club and country is hard.
“But as we were saying before, this is an industry where the people who leads, sometimes in a correct decision, sometimes not correct decisions, but in our mind the decisions we think is the best for the team."
Shanghai SIPG boss Sven Goran-Eriksson will try and tempt Rooney, 30, with a whopping £80million deal to quit Old Trafford and finish off his career in the Far East.
But Old Trafford chief Mourinho, 53, when asked if he would ever offload his skipper, said: “No, never.
“I will never make that decision. A player of his stature, a player of his history in the club will never go to point where club or manager want to make that decision for him.
“I put him [Rooney] on the bench for three matches in a row. That is hard for him, hard for me, so that is being ruthless, to put in my mind the interests of the team in front of the player, prestige, status. In this case even legend. To put on bench a player with the numbers he has for club and country is hard.
“But as we were saying before, this is an industry where the people who leads, sometimes in a correct decision, sometimes not correct decisions, but in our mind the decisions we think is the best for the team."
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