Manchester United could be without Wayne Rooney for tomorrow’s Premier League game with Liverpool after the skipper didn’t check into their team hotel with the rest of the squad.

Louis van Gaal and his players arrived at the five-star Lowry Hotel to spend the night together as a group before the crunch match at Old Trafford.

However captain Rooney, who raised concerns with manager Louis van Gaal this week about the United dressing room being ‘flat’, couldn’t be spotted among the club’s party as they got off the team bus earlier this evening with speculation that he is injured.

James Wilson, who was also not spotted at the plush hotel, and £36m teenager Anthony Martial are the only out-and-out strikers available to Van Gaal, with Marouane Fellaini another option.

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Van Gaal said last month Fellaini will primarily play as a forward this season.