Louis van Gaal calls Rooney-critical reporter ‘fat man’

“They are insane”, said the Serbian hitman.

At the final whistle Newcastle’s 21-year-old Serbian made a beeline to ensure he swapped shirts with the Rdds 30-year-old striker and afterwards he scoffed at the critics who suggest Rooney is finished.

Manchester United and Newcastle saw a six goal thriller at St James’ Park with Wayne Rooney showing form after a win-less December by his side.

Rooney’s early penalty and Lingard’s finish put United 2-0 up on 38 minutes before Georginio Wijnaldum and Aleksandar Mitrovic’s spot-kick levelled the scores.

“If you take a two-goal lead, we should be taking all three points and killing the game off. We didn’t take all our chances and we have been punished for it”.

Newcastle’s draw against the Red Devils has seen them move to within one point of safety, and stopped a run of four straight defeats. By the end, we actually had more possession (54 per cent to 46) than Manchester United…

“There was the deflected shot from Dummett to equalise, but okay, that is happening and that is luck for Newcastle United”.

And Rooney knows that United will have to be at their best if they are to win on the weekend, with chances like the ones against the Magpies needed to be taken.

It was a case of one step forward and two steps back for Manchester United as they cast off their recent “boring” image on Tuesday but, despite some thrilling attacking, dropped to sixth place in the Premier League.

Scholes continued to say “I expect positive play from Manchester United all the time, whether you’re home or away” as Scholes was brought up with the United way of always trying to attack, and that led to numerous trophies during his time at the club.

“You can score as many goals as you want, but if you keep conceding goals, then it s a problem”. Therefore, Rooney has now scored 175 goals for United, equalling Henry’s single team scoring record in the Premier League.

McClaren said: “We wanted to show everyone what we are about”.

In his BT Sport interview, van Gaal returned to the wasteful duo and highlighted a first half miss by Wayne Rooney as costing his team dearly. You can see he’s pushing the head of Smalling to the ground.