“Sign the contract and shut up” Jose Mourinho warns Fellaini

Jose Mourinho has warned Manchester United midfielder Marouane Fellaini to “sign the contract and shut up” with the player set to leave for free in the summer.

The Belgian international is yet to agree on new terms with the club and could walk away from the club in July.

Fellaini is also set for a spell on the sidelines having aggravated a knee injury in United’s 2-0 defeat against Tottenham on Wedsnady at Wembley.

“Sign and shut up”
The Portuguese coach has urged Fellaini to sign the contract currently being offered to him by the club.

The player has so far rejected an on offer from the club, with interest being shown in him from clubs in Turkey and Italy.

Mourinho jokingly said:

“I told him yesterday, sign the contract and shut up.

I told him, don’t gamble too much.

Sign the contract before you know the extent of the injury.”

The 30-year-old was subbed on in the 63rd minute at Wembley on Wedsanday, lasting just seven minutes, replaced by Ander Herrera after hobbling around.

On the injury he added:

“I don’t have good news.

I don’t have news because I don’t want to give news based on an initial approach but I don’t think the news is very good, he has a problem in his knee, is the same knee but not the same local, was internal, now external, so let’s wait a couple of more days but out of the game tomorrow.

We are going to lose for a few weeks. ‘Two, three four or five, I cannot say at the moment.”

FT: Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 Manchester United
In front of a record-breaking Premier League crowd, Christian Eriksen netted the league’s third-fastest ever goal, scoring after just 10.48 seconds to set the tone for the remaining 89 minutes.

Tottenham asserted their dominance on the game throughout, as Manchester United failed to recover from the Dane’s early hammer-blow.

A long ball forward from the kick-off caught United’s back-line unawares as Harry Kane outleaped Jones to nod the ball into the path of Dele Alli who set up Eriksen to stun the Wembley crowd.

The second came halfway through the first period, as Jones calamitously turned Kieran Trippier’s cross into his own net, leaving David de Gea with no chance and highlighting the Red Devils’ defensive frailties.

Mourinho will now be needing to reassess, ahead of today’s visit of struggling Huddersfield, with his side looking well off the pace at Wembley.