Ray Wilkins: ‘Jose Mourinho wants reaction from Luke Shaw’

Manchester United defender Luke Shaw can be “one of the best in the world”, says team-mate Ashley Young.

Spurs could appeal to the 23-year-old more as a move down South would move him closer to his family back in Southampton, but much would hinge on whether Spurs agree to let Rose leave in the opposite direction.

Mourinho publicly criticised the England worldwide once more after the match, claiming that he failed to follow instructions on the pitch in the first half.

Headers by Romelu Lukaku and Nemanja Matic earned Manchester United an unconvincing 2-0 victory over Brighton and Hove Albion in a low-key FA Cup quarterfinal played in freezing conditions Saturday. Of course, not surrounded by water, surrounded by other people that did a positive job. “It’s always hard for a team to be knocked out of a competition, but we showed the character to bounce back and not let anything faze us”.

‘Luke is one of those players where you have to keep on, you have to keep pushing him and he needs to be challenged’. He is a fantastic player.

Mourinho has spoken negatively about the player numerous times and has also labelled the player as the one of the best in the league.

Once tipped to become Europe’s best left-back, Shaw’s career at Old Trafford now appears to be over.

“If you’re coming out criticising your manager then a football club that wants to sign Luke Shaw in the next six months isn’t going to look on that positively”.

“Everybody wants to be in that starting XI”.

“But, big personality to cope with a mistake, big personality to say and to think I am not playing well but at least I will do the basic things of the game”.

England visit the Netherlands on Friday and host Italy on Tuesday in their build-up to the World Cup in Russian Federation in June. I felt that. So I have nothing to lose in relation to that.

“I don’t think he would have been that successful if he didn’t know how to handle players”. I have to go off to the national team.

He missed out on the 2014 World Cup and is keen to be involved when Southgate announces his team for this summer’s tournament in Russian Federation.

“There’s a World Cup at the end of it”.

However, the Portuguese didn’t get the response he wanted as another uninspiring display produced just two shots on target.

Mourinho implied that both Shaw and Valencia did not do well and from this point of view, it is logical for Shaw to be substituted as Valencia is more of a leader and an experienced player.

And he has no qualms about going to Russian Federation despite the current political uncertainty.

“Eriksen was fantastic, so important for us”, said Spurs boss Pochettino. “And because some of them were mentally strong enough and with the football quality to play, was the reason why we won”. That’s for obviously the government and whoever else to talk about and discuss, but we’re footballers.