What Wayne Rooney said about Jose Mourinho at Man United should serve as a warning for Tottenham

Jose Mourinho’s future is as soon as once more within the highlight at Tottenham after a troublesome run.

The Spurs boss is dealing with elevated scrutiny on his place within the wake of a disappointing run of outcomes for Tottenham, which included an embarrassing exit from the Europa League at the palms of Dinamo Zagreb and defeat within the North London Derby in opposition to Arsenal.

A win in opposition to Aston Villa previous to the worldwide break lifted the temper considerably, however a 2-2 draw with Newcastle United was one other supply of frustration on Sunday.

After the sport, Mourinho bemoaned his facet’s defensive points, with the supervisor providing a quick response when requested what the distinction was between Tottenham and his earlier sides, when he has gained a repute for making his sides laborious to interrupt down.

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Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, he said: “Same coach, totally different gamers.”

That attracted criticism from a number of pundits and followers alike, with Alan Shearer and Ian Wright dissecting his feedback on Match of the Day 2 and suggesting that Mourinho was nonetheless looking out for a components in his defence.

Several gamers have discovered themselves out of the facet in latest weeks as Mourinho appears to try to discover his greatest combos, together with Matt Doherty and Serge Aurier, whereas Eric Dier and Toby Alderweireld have additionally had spells out of the group.

But feedback from former Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney about Mourinho counsel that gamers unnoticed of the facet should not count on solutions as to why they aren’t taking part in.

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“In my opinion, clearly being there for a 12 months with him, he didn’t and that was the one shock we had, was that the communication with the gamers wasn’t as a lot as it may have been,” he said, chatting with BT Sport in 2018 when requested whether or not Mourinho stored his gamers on facet at Old Trafford.

“I believe if you go away a participant out of a sport, typically for the participant, it offers them a little bit of freedom of the thoughts when the supervisor says ‘I’m leaving you out for this motive,’ however the gamers didn’t get that and I believe that’s essentially the most troublesome factor for a participant to try to work out why you aren’t taking part in.

“It is simply proper for a participant to need to know why they aren’t taking part in and I knew myself if I weren’t performing properly sufficient to be within the group, I wouldn’t be.

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“But the massive factor I believe with Jose [Mourinho] was the communication with the gamers and I do know there have been gamers who weren’t pleased with that.

“Nothing intimately was said, nothing like ‘you aren’t doing this, or you aren’t doing that’, which might offer you one thing to go and work on or make your self higher at these sure issues.

“I knew Zlatan [Ibrahimovic] was certainly one of his huge signings and he had are available and was scoring targets, and I possibly wasn’t taking part in to the extent I knew I may do, so I knew that was the explanation, and that was what roughly made my thoughts as much as go and play elsewhere.”

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