Jose Mourinho Urges David Moyes To Let Wayne Rooney Join Chelsea.

JOSE MOURINHO last night urged David Moyes to sell Wayne Rooney to Chelsea, insisting: "Why keep an unhappy player?"

Mourinho will make a £35million offer for the unsettled Man United striker after the teams meet at Old Trafford tomorrow night. The Chelsea boss, asked if he would make a third bid, said: "Let's see. We make the bid and they say no again, what do we lose? One e-mail?" The Blues' charismatic boss has displayed a ruthless streak when it comes to transfer dealings. He was happy snatching Russian club Anzi Makhachkala's Brazil flyer Willian from the jaws of Spurs and his old sparring partner and fellow Portuguese, Andre Villas-Boas. After winning one mind game, he turned his attention to United manager David Moyes and admitted Chelsea won't stop trying to sign Rooney until it is virtually impossible. Mourinho, all winks and nods to journalists he knows, sat in front on 16 cameras - in contrast to the regular five when Rafa Benitez was in charge at Stamford Bridge - and claimed it was impossible to keep an unhappy player, which he believes is where Rooney is at the moment with United.

And underlining his point, the self-styled Special One revealed he tried to keep central defender William Gallas at Chelsea in his first reign, only to lose him to London rivals Arsenal. Mourinho said: "Players are sometimes unhappy because they want new contracts and at other times they are unhappy because they want to leave and that is a different situation. "Sometimes they are happy and the agents are unhappy and it is all about a new contract and more money or, 'I have one year and I want two', and after two days they are happy again. "Other times it's because they really want to go. I was so sad about William Gallas. "He was was fundamental for us when we won titles. "He said he wants, he wants, he wants and we couldn't stop him, so we decided not to stop him.

"As you know, in this club it wasn't an economical problem, it was just the player wanted to go. Ricardo Carvalho and John Terry were playing central defence all the time and he wanted to be first choice. "He was playing many matches in a position that wasn't his best position, he was playing left-back and sometimes Wayne Bridge was playing, so he wasn't happy. So we thought it was a fair situation to sell him in the end. "I had no trouble selling him to a rival. It happens all the time in Europe."

Mourinho hopes Rooney will be the final piece in his squad jigsaw. He added: "We are going to get a maximum of two players in this transfer window, so if we get the second, it will be the final piece in the jigsaw." He scoffed at suggestions he was going for Rooney only to unsettle Moyes and said of the transfer saga: "To me it is not a difficult decision because you want very much to keep Rooney or you don't want to keep him? "But that old-fashioned mentality of, 'I don't sell players to clubs in the same country' - I think doesn't help . "Sometimes you push players abroad when you should be keeping them in your league because then you are contributing to making your league the best league."