Wayne Rooney could make Man United return against Norwich

However, he did confirm Nick Powell might claim a rare starting berth, but Jesse Lingard and Matteo Darmian would miss the Norwich match through injury, with Ashley Young struggling to feature.

United boss Louis van Gaal confirmed on Friday the striker had been back in training for a full week.

Three or four players are coming back. They’re too dependent on Rooney and I think he’s past his best, without being disrespectful I never thought he was world-class anyway.

While it remains to be seen whether Rooney, Smalling and Herrera return to the team this weekend, United will definitely still be without a significant number of players.

“We as a group are more than capable, if we play as well as we can, of putting back-to-back wins together”.

Van Gaal, under whom Mourinho worked at Barcelona, has hailed the Portuguese’s record as a coach and says he did not expect to see him leave, despite Chelsea’s dismal first half of the season.

“When you cost yourself with errors, or not taking your opportunities, that drops us by five or six points and that makes a world of difference to a team like us”.

The Red Devils suffered a surprise 2-1 defeat by promoted side Bournemouth at Vitality Stadium in the Premier League on Saturday evening. You have seen that.

“They’ve not conceded many goals but it seems to me at the moment like they haven’t got a leader, someone who can grab games by the scruff of the neck like they used to have with Roy Keane and Rio Ferdinand”.

“Every match is another circumstance. We always prepare the qualities of our opponents and what we have to do, we explain and the players apply that”. But we have to get results. But we have to wait and see…it is too much risk normally.

Norwich City have won just one of their last 19 Premier League away fixtures (W1 D5 L13).

It’s a little bit insane, but that is the world.

The emergence of Varela and Borthwick-Jackson excites De Gea and he believes it signals a bright future for the club. If you close your eyes to that you’re not faithful to that strategy anymore’.

United has been criticized for the way they have been playing their football and a majority of the supporters are blaming Louis Van Gaal.