Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho hinted at a possible further bid for Manchester United's unsettled striker Wayne Rooney.
Mourinho, after celebrating his Stamford Bridge return with a 2-0 defeat of Premier League new boys Hull wants to bolster his squad and is prepared to wait until the September 2 transfer window deadline for Rooney, for whom the club has pushed for twice before, the Metro reports.
The Chelsea boss said that they will try to add a new striker to the squad but at the moment every striker has a club and every striker belongs to somebody and he thinks it is not ethical to name players that belong to other clubs.
According to the report, he said that unlike other clubs, Chelsea does not go around players to influence them and if they want to make a bid, they make it in an official way.
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