Man United ready to send struggling midfielder out of club

This 2-1 win against Swansea City finally turned the mood to joy and Van Gaal could also speak of hopeful liftoff into 2016 for Wayne Rooney, whose sublime back-heeled victor broke the captain’s own two-month club scoring drought and placed him ahead of Denis Law on 238 United goals – and a clear second behind Alan Shearer in the Premier League stakes with 188 goals.

While Van Gaal reserved a few words of praise for Wayne Rooney, the Dutchman believes that United’s recent win at Old Trafford had eased the pressure on the players and manager alike.

Now Van Gaal hopes his squad will be able to play with more freedom after ending their rotten run.

Rooney’s performance in particular was worthy of note for Van Gaal, who noted the United skipper’s improvement against Chelsea in a 0-0 draw a week ago. It has been witnessed that LVG’s side enjoys tremendous amount of possession throughout the matches, but they seem to lack the cutting edge or creativity to find the end product.

“When you analyse most matches we were the dominating team, but we didn’t score”.

“In the second half today we played far better, dominated more of the game and really kicked on and showed that grit and desire that we’ve got to show in games”.

He said: “I shall think that now the pressure is lowering, the performance shall be better every week. Never – and I have been in this profession for 25 years, so it’s unusual and they are angry, and want to change the situation”. “Also, for this moment, but we still have a good team and we can still score goals”.

Jamie Redknapp says that Wayne Rooney’s goal for Manchester United at the weekend could “spark him into life”. The first objective was accomplished on Saturday for the first time in nine games.

“We were a little disappointing in the first half, as we didn’t keep the ball well”.

It came just after the break, yet when Gylfi Sigurdsson equalised on 70 minutes United seemed certain to extend their winless sequence to a ninth outing.

United responded to that in the opening stages of the second half by making a quick start, breaking the deadlock within two minutes when Anthony Martial nodded Ashley Young’s cross past Fabianski.