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David Moyes has hit back at Jose Mourinho’s jibes, by insisting Wayne Rooney WON'T be sold in the summer.

And Manchester United manager Moyes could yet pull a major shock by taking a gamble to involve injury-hit Rooney against Mourinho's Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.

Blues boss Mourinho has been up to some serious mind games this week in anticipation of the mouth-watering Premier League clash, by claiming champions United will try to offload striker Rooney to a foreign club in the summer.

“Manchester United were very clear last summer, they don’t swap or sell players to their direct rivals in this country,” the Special One said. “I don’t see that changing this summer. But I think maybe they will try to sell to a non-direct rival, not in England.”

Moyes though, not only bluntly dismissed that notion, he insisted he would never talk about the west Londoners or their players in the same disrespectful way.

Asked about the comments on Rooney, the Scot responded with a searing stare and the words: “I completely disagree. I can only tell you I disagree. Although he will go to Brazil [to play in the World Cup]...”

Moyes also suggested United would give Rooney a new contract, when he added emphatically: “The club will deal with that. They will do all the things they need to do, no question.”

And asked if it was poor form from Mourinho to indulge in such obvious mind games ahead of Sunday's game, the former Everton manager replied: “I wouldn’t do it, but everybody has their own style.

“I wouldn’t talk about other managers at other clubs and I wouldn’t talk about other players at other clubs. I can’t tell you what his motivation is, but only time will give you the answer about Wayne.”

Moyes also revealed Mourinho has offered a personal apology for the interpretation of comments he made earlier in week, where he was reported as saying the Old Trafford hierarchy are ‘not happy’.

And the Scot responded with some mind games of his own.

Although he stated publicly that Rooney would not play at the Bridge, the England star underwent a full training stint on Friday, after being put through a special behind-closed-doors session a day before.

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Rooney will train again on Saturday morning, and the Mirror understands Moyes will NOT make a decision on his availability until Sunday - when he will wait to see how the 28-year-old comes through his training programme.

If Rooney feels strong enough, he could be involved at Chelsea from the bench - or even be a surprise starter.

Rooney has been on a warm-weather break in Egypt to try to recover from his groin injury, accompanied by United’s head of performance Richard Hawkins, who put him through some serious fitness session.

Moyes will also make decisions on the involvement of Phil Jones and Marouane Fellaini, who both trained on Friday, and also indicated out of favour star Wilfried Zaha could be in his match-day squad.

The Old Trafford boss dismissed claims Zaha had stormed out of a meeting, which was alleged to have ended in a shouting match after the winger was told by his manager he couldn’t go out on loan.

In fact, Moyes revealed he WILL let the England international go out to get some starts... just as soon as he has cover.

“Wilfried Zaha has a chance [of facing Chelsea]. I have told him that if I can’t get him the games I will put him out on loan,” he explained. “But he can’t go out while we have Ashley Young and Nani injured - and I would be surprised if anyone thought that was a possibility.

“Did he storm off? I had 30 seconds chat on the training pitch today and we were talking away. So there was nothing like that.

“That is what I have indicated to the boy - maybe towards the end of the window if others are fit. But he is a Manchester United player, that’s what he is.”

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