{"id":1684,"date":"2026-08-20T13:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2026-08-20T13:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:12:18","slug":"whats-the-point-wayne-rooney-reveals-clash-with-jose-mourinho-over-standards-at-man-utd-before-league-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=1684","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;What&#8217;s the point?&#8217; &#8211; Wayne Rooney reveals clash with Jose Mourinho over &#8216;standards&#8217; at Man Utd before League Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p>Speaking on <em>The Wayne Rooney Show<\/em> podcast, a demanding character said: \u201cI remember we went to the League Cup final and players were wearing the suits with big, bright yellow trainers and stuff like that. I went to Mourinho and said, \u2018Listen, I&#8217;ve spoken to the players and you need to have a word here and to keep the standards. We can&#8217;t have that going to Wembley into a cup final\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8217;He&#8217;s like, \u2018Yeah, yeah, I&#8217;ll speak to them\u2019. And then as we came down to leave, I&#8217;ve seen Jose there and he&#8217;s got a zip-up top with no tie on. I was thinking, \u2018What&#8217;s the point?\u2019 &#8216;He was more relaxed on it, so, what&#8217;s the point? Why am I even bothering with this? I think now it&#8217;s just wear what you want and they have phones, caps, whatever trainers would suit.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/wayne-rooney-reveals-clash-jose-mourinho-standards-man-utd-league-cup-final\/bltf1fe66fbe479b7a1\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on The Wayne Rooney Show podcast, a demanding character said: \u201cI remember we went&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}