Jose Mourinho has spoken for the first time about Wayne Rooney 's boozing on England duty.
Manchester United skipper Rooney was forced to issue a public apology after pictures emerged of him drinking until the early hours following England's 3-0 World Cup qualifier win over Scotland.
Mourinho remained tight-lipped on the episode but insisted Rooney had trained well this week and was in contnetion to play in Saturday lunchtime's Premier League clash with Arsenal at Old Trafford.
"Over the last two or three days, nothing happened," said Mourinho. He [Rooney] trained like everybody else, he wants to play like everybody else. He's ready.
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"What happened in the national team happened in the national team, I don't comment.
"My players, when they go there, belong to the national team and I don't like to comment.
"Sometimes they come back stronger than when they left us because something good happened there, a good performance or a good result.
"Other times injuries, sometimes big injuries, sometimes frustrations because they didn't play or the result was bad.
"In this case, we know what didn't go well, but the national team is a different chapter and is closed now until March."
Mourinho also reignited the controverst over claims he made about United defenders Chris Smalling and Luke Shaw refusing to play through the pain barrier at Swansea.
It subsequently emerged that Smalling was suffering from a broken toe that is likely to keep him out for a month, but Mourinho was angry at the way that story had emerged.
"Chris Smalling you cannot ask [about], because you have your sources, you trust your sources, you believe your sources tell you," said Mourinho.
"You did that for 15 days, so now you are not going to ask me to comment on your sources so on Chris Smalling I don't comment.
"You have your trustful relationship with your sources, you wrote, you spoke, you comment, you criticise, I don't say a word about Chris Smalling.
"You do the big headlines with your sources and now I'm not interested.
"Luke Shaw worked well in this period where we had a very small group but he worked really well, so he is ready to play. I don't have any problem with him.
"I don't say if he plays, but he is my player, a young player with potential.
"Like every young player he has things to learn, but he is a player of my confidence."