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29th October 2016
09:58am BST

Jose Mourinho outlines the percentage chance Rooney has of becoming a guaranteed starter again at United (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)[/caption]
"There is no problem at all but you need stories to sell papers," the Portuguese told reporters.
"[Rooney] is a top player, a very important player for us," he added. "He is going nowhere - we like him, he likes us. He's not happy because he's been on the bench but he is even unhappier when he's injured."
But on the same day some bookies were giving odds of just 4/1 that Rooney would either be sold, or move on loan in January - down from 50/1 at the start of the season. We looked at the top six leading contenders to sign him, here.
Meanwhile Everton boss Ronald Koeman talked up the possibility of bringing Rooney back to his boyhood club.
"Of course, if there is a possibility that Rooney is an option for Everton, I'm very pleased," the Dutchman said in a press conference ahead of Everton's Premier League meeting with West Ham United on Sunday.
"He's a great player, he's still not finished his career."
Rooney made his professional debut for Everton as a 16-year-old at the start of the 2002/03 season, with his first top-flight goal - the winner against Arsenal at Goodison Park - coming just days before his 17th birthday.
He played more than 70 games for the club before moving to Manchester United in the summer of 2004, going on to score more than 200 goals for the 20-time English champions.
Crucially, he is just four goals short of beating Bobby Charlton's tally of 249 goals for United, to become the club's all-time leading goalscorer.
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