Jesse Lingard says that striker Wayne Rooney is likely to resume training after the international break.

The star striker has been available for Manchester United in the last month. His last appearance was in the 2-1 loss against Sunderland in the middle of February. He has been unable to play because of a knee injury. In his absence, United have made some good progress in the league table and have recently confirmed this with a derby win against Manchester City. 18-year-old striker Marcus Rashford scored the only goal of the game in the 1-0 win.

The Dutch coach of Manchester United, Louis van Gaal was clearly frustrated about the defeat that his team suffered against West Bromwich Albion and after the match reached it’s end, it didn’t take long for Louis van Gaal to voice his thoughts about what happened in the game and he believes that the crucial moment of the entire game was Juan Mata’s dismissal after having received his 2nd yellow card in the first half.

Former England international Trevor Sinclair claims that Wayne Rooney may actually become the player to watch at Euro 2016.

The Manchester United striker is entering into a great phase in his career. Even though he has struggled to score goals regularly under the regime of Louis Van Gaal, he is starting to prove his worth by providing some important goals for the team. At 30 years of age, he will also be aware that the Euro 2016 could be his last opportunity to make a major impact at an international tournament. So far, Rooney has failed to deceive in the previous major tournaments.

Wayne Rooney has admitted that the team needs to score more goals if they are to win football matches on a regular basis.

Once Manchester United were regarded as the epic tome of attacking football when it comes to the Premier League. However, they have barely managed to score more than a goal per game under the regime of Louis Van Gaal. This was not significantly better than the previous regime under David Moyes. The failure to score goals has been the club go on a run of five matches without a win in all competitions.

Manchester United defender Phil Jones believes that people should not just look up to Wayne Rooney as a striker whose main job is to score goals.

Instead, he sees several good qualities within the former Everton striker that would help the team in several aspects. Jones was speaking ahead of the international friendly matches for England. After having comfortably qualified for the Euro 2016, the team will be looking to march ahead in style by winning the friendly matches as well. These matches also provide manager Roy Hodgson with the option of testing out some new players.

Wayne Rooney has been disappointing of late with new signing Anthony Martial already grabbing the headlines with three Premier League goals from just two games.

Rooney is yet to open his account in the league this season and this is despite playing in more than 450 minutes so far. He has been much more prolific in other competitions. His best performances, though, have been with the England national team. He has seven goals in just eight games for the England team and this has seen him become the record goal scorer for the national team. His position in Louis van Gaal’s team has been subjected to much debate.

England star Wayne Rooney says that he remains confident of breaking the scoring record for the national team.

The record is currently held by Manchester United legend Bobby Charlton. The former Manchester United striker scored 49 goals during his iconic England career. It was a great achievement back then since the number of the international matches was not so large. Rooney has scored 48 goals till date and could potentially go level with Charlton’s record in September. England have a match against San Marino, which is expected to be a walk in the park.

Following the departure of NemanjaVidic from Manchester United in July of 2014, Louis van Gaal had to make a decision concerning which player was going to become the next captain of the Premier League club and it was Wayne Rooney who was selected.

Robin van Persie was one of the top candidates of becoming the captain of the team at Old Trafford as the Dutch forward already has experience in leading players of a team after having captained Arsenal a few years ago.

Even the own fans of Manchester United were questioning the appointment of Wayne Rooney as the captain. Rooney is not a player who is known for being able to actually lead a team as he has a short temper or at least used to.

Despite all of the doubts, Rooney has actually emerged as a person who has improved not only inside the pitch but outside of it as well and the English forward has revealed details concerning how it has been for him after turning into the captain.

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal reacted angrily when questioned about the boxing celebration performed by Wayne Rooney after scoring a goal in the 3-0 win over Tottenham on Sunday.

A private video featuring Rooney was recently released by a popular national daily. The England international is seen having a game of boxing with Stoke City defender Phil Bardsley at his home. A punch from the former Manchester United teammate resulted in Rooney being thrown offguard and knocked out for a few minutes. The 29-year-old mocked this video by performing a similar gesture after scoring the goal.

Van Gaal refused to discuss about this celebration, as he felt that the media raising questions about the private life of a player is certainly not right. As one of most high profile players within the United team, Rooney’s activities are closely monitored by the National press.

Manchester City might not have played great football for the starting few weeks of the season, but, now, they are coming to their own.

Not only have they started going up north in their domestic league, they have made a comeback in Europe too. In fact, they have managed to make the pre quarter final round in the Champions League.

The other night, playing away at Roma, the Sky Blues excelled. A 2-0 victory saw them ending at no. 2 in their group.

Four weeks back, it was looking like an almost impossible thing for City to be able to clear the group stage in Europe. After having played their 4 games, they only had 2 points and they had to face Bayern Munich, arguably the best team in the group, once.

But, not only did City defeat Munich; they carried the same intensity in the following game too and defeated Roma convincingly to take their points’ tally to 8 and also, to improve their goal differential to +1.