Rooney criticized Mourinho for not following his advice, causing Manchester United s standards to drop!

Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney recalled a conversation with then-head coach Mourinho before the 2017 League Cup final, which made him doubt the club's standards. As we all know, Manchester United won the championship with Southampton 3-2 at Wembley, and Rooney did not play at all and was only responsible for going on stage to win the cup.

Although Rooney became the player with the most goals in Manchester United history during Mourinho's coaching and continued to serve as the club captain, he was demoted to a substitute, which obviously made him unsatisfied and left the team a season later. He expressed dissatisfaction with Mourinho's management style, especially before Wembley's final, when he directly asked the head coach to complain that the players' dress before the game was not particular enough.

Rooney recalled: "I remember we were in the League Cup final, when the players were wearing suits, but with bright yellow sneakers and other equipment. I went to Mourinho and said to him, "Listen, I talked to the players, and now you need to talk to them too, so that they should maintain the standards they should have. We can't let this happen in Wembley's Cup final."

However, Rooney's suggestion was not recognized by Mourinho, because the Portuguese madman himself did not dress as Rooney said. Rooney said: "He replied, 'Well, I'll talk to them.' When we were about to set off, I saw José (Morino) wearing a zipper top and not a tie. I thought, what's the point? He didn't care about it, what's the point? Why should I bother to worry about it? I think it's enough to wear what I want to wear now. They hold their phones, hats and sneakers, and they're also suitable."

During Ferguson's coaching, Manchester United usually wore custom suits with club badges before the battle. But not every coach cares about these links. Mourinho does not have the habit of strictly energetic requirements when coaching any team. The battle of fame in a madman - Porto's UEFA Champions League match against Manchester United at Old Trafford, the scene of him running wildly in a coat to celebrate the whole audience is deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Rooney also found that Chelsea was wearing casual clothes when Mourinho was coaching: "In the past, when you saw Chelsea games, you would find that the players who were not on the roster were sitting on the bench, and they were wearing their own clothes. I think it looked a bit scruffy. And at Manchester United, everything is very professional. Even if you are not on the roster, everyone will wear the club's formal outfit. That professional atmosphere is very obvious, but now it has all disappeared. I think every club is like this now, and you can wear whatever you want. But I always feel that Manchester United looked really professional in the past."

But considering Rooney's current body shape and image, some fans think that he actually discussed that Mourinho's dress is "untidy", which makes people feel a bit ironic.

Many senior executives of Manchester United obviously have the same views as Rooney. British media revealed that some people were shocked when Mourinho wore a hoodie and sneakers to attend the Munich air crash commemoration event in 2018.

In contrast, during the coaching period of Van Gaal and Solskjaer, the club's mandatory regulations for players to wear formal clothes in important games were strictly enforced, and Rooney agreed very much. As soon as Sorry took office, it was explicitly stipulated that Manchester United players wore the club's official uniforms in all games. He said that this was to regain the principles that Ferguson had adhered to during his coaching period.

But Manchester United's current coach Ruben Amorin is in line with Mourinho and does not care about the players' clothing. Manchester United players often wear sportswear to play, and Amorin himself has almost never worn a suit on the coach's seat. The only exception was that in the Europa League final last season, Amorin put on a suit, but the team still lost to Tottenham 0-1.

(Yaxingzhuo)