Overview

• Rooney recounted telling Jose Mourinho to address players wearing bright trainers with suits before the League Cup final at Wembley in 2017.
• Mourinho agreed to speak to the squad but then appeared in a zip-up top without a tie, which left Rooney questioning the point of raising the issue.
• United won the League Cup and Europa League that season under Mourinho, though they finished sixth in the Premier League.
• Rooney contrasted the episode with Sir Alex Ferguson’s era of mandatory club suits and noted Ole Gunnar Solskjaer reintroduced that requirement in January 2019.
• Current coverage says those standards have faded again, with players often arriving in tracksuits and manager Ruben Amorim described as dressing casually on the touchline.