Jose Mourinho tells Manchester United contract rebel Marouane Fellaini to "shut up" and sign new deal
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Jose Mourinho has told Manchester United contract rebel Marouane Fellaini to "shut up" and sign the new deal the club have offered him.
The United boss - speaking ahead of his side's Premier League clash with Huddersfield on Saturday - also suggested that, given the Belgian's injury he picked up in Wednesday's 2-0 defeat to Tottenham at Wembley , he should sign the deal while it is still available to him.
Fellaini - who is out of contract in the summer - is set to be out for 6-8 weeks having picked up a knee problem just 30 seconds after coming on against Spurs, forcing him to be substituted after just seven minutes on the pitch.
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And Mourinho seemed to suggest that the former Everton man is talking too much, and not acting in his own best interests.
"I told him yesterday: 'Sign the contract and shut up,'" he said on Friday.
"I told him: 'Don't gamble too much. Sign the contract before you know the extent of the injury.'"
As for the injury itself, Mourinho seemed to suggest that Fellaini won't be available until mid-March at the earliest.
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"I don't have good news [on Fellaini's injury]." he continued. "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, was internal, now external. So let's wait a couple of more days but out of the game tomorrow.
"Is not an ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) or a complete rupture of any structure of the knee. We are not going so far as that but we need him. Champions League is arriving and lots of tough matches to play and probably we are going to lose for a few weeks. Two, three, four or five, I cannot say at the moment."