Jose Mourinho has confirmed Wayne Rooney will be involved in Manchester United’s EFL Cup final. With Wayne Rooney pledging his immediate future to Manchester United, Jose Mourinho has confirmed that the England striker will be in the squad for the League Cup final on Sunday. Rooney is no stranger to big games, having featured in eight major finals in his time at Old Trafford.
But how did he fare in each of those matches? Here’s a look:
2005 FA Cup Final
May 21, 2005
Arsenal 0-0 Manchester United (Arsenal won 5-4 on penalties)
Rooney signed for Manchester United in 2004 and took little time…
Jose Mourinho has confirmed Wayne Rooney will be involved in Manchester United’s EFL Cup final.
The FC crew say Man United’s barometer of success is measured by if they earn a UCL spot, not by winning the League Cup. Wayne Rooney will be allowed to lift the EFL Cup trophy should Man United beat Southampton on Sunday — even if he doesn’t play in the final, manager Jose Mourinho says.
Rooney’s position with the club has been called into question in recent weeks after the forward has played just 45 minutes in February and had to issue a statement that he isn’t planning an imminent move away from Old Trafford.
And while Mourinho has said that he won’t hold a place in his starting XI for the 31-year-old simply for…
The FC crew say Man United’s barometer of success is measured by if they earn a UCL spot, not by winning the League Cup.
Claude Puel embraces Southampton’s underdog role against Manchester United in the EFL Cup final. Eric Cantona is convinced Manchester United will land the first of many trophies in the Jose Mourinho era at Wembley on Sunday.
With United still fighting in the FA Cup and the Europa League, Cantona is backing Mourinho to deliver major silverware at the first attempt when they face Southampton in the EFL Cup final.
Cantona, whose signing from Leeds by Sir Alex Ferguson in 1992 was a key moment in United becoming the dominant force of the Premier League age, praised the expertise and wit of Mourinho…
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Jose Mourinho has confirmed Wayne Rooney will be involved in Manchester United’s EFL Cup final.
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Jose Mourinho has told the Manchester United squad how important it is to win the EFL Cup and get back to winning trophies on a regular basis, Juan Mata has told Sky Sports.
United’s FA Cup win last season was their first trophy in three seasons but Mata says Mourinho has his squad focused on another win at Wembley.
“He has told us and I think everyone realises how important it is,” Mata said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a League Cup final … a final is a final and you never know when you will play…
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Alison Bender and Don Hutchison discuss whether Claude Puel can lead Southampton to their first major trophy since 1976.
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The FC crew say Man United’s barometer of success is measured by if they earn a UCL spot, not by winning the League Cup.
Jose Mourinho has confirmed Wayne Rooney will be involved in Manchester United’s EFL Cup final.
The Boys from Exploding Heads are here to assure you that the League Cup final is definitely not pointless.
By Sunday evening, the second trophy of the English season will have been awarded at Wembley Stadium. Manchester United won the first, lifting the FA Community Shield back in August, and now Jose Mourinho is desperate to add the EFL Cup.
Had that sentence been written five years ago, United fans would have scoffed. The Community Shield was seen as little more than a glorified friendly, with the main advantage being that it allowed upward of 60,000 fans to get into Wembley with an ease that usually…
The Boys from Exploding Heads are here to assure you that the League Cup final is definitely not pointless.
The last time Manchester United faced Southampton in a Wembley showpiece was 1976’s FA Cup final, a sun-drenched May afternoon won by a Bobby Stokes goal that United fans of a certain age swear to this day was offside. That was Southampton’s last (and indeed only) major trophy and it was won as a second division club. United, for their part, had been in that division the previous season, a club in the doldrums after their glories in the 1950s and 1960s.
United’s current version of being in the…
The FC crew say Man United’s barometer of success is measured by if they earn a UCL spot, not by winning the League Cup.