Meulensteen

Meulensteen is the first senior employee at Old Trafford to speak openly about the widely held suspicion behind the scenes that a deal was being put in place to take Rooney to Eastlands, reflecting on it being "a matter for the manager to protect the value of the player for the club and to ensure he would not join City".

Sir Alex Ferguson really thought Wayne Rooney was defecting to City 2011

Meulensteen refers to the night when a mob of 30 United fans turned up outside Rooney's house to warn him of dire consequences if he followed Carlos Tevez across Manchester.

Sir Alex Ferguson really thought Wayne Rooney was defecting to City 2011

Welbeck draws also on other aspects of his Old Trafford education, which include instruction from the Dutch coach Rene Meulensteen, who has been at Old Trafford since 2001, with the exception of six unsuccessful months in Denmark as Brondby manager.

Danny Welbeck wise to the task of being a striking success for England 2011

Meulensteen jokes that "all of us – staff, coaches, masseurs, groundsmen etc – put on our balaclavas and went over to Rooney's home to explain to him that going to City was not done."

Sir Alex Ferguson really thought Wayne Rooney was defecting to City 2011

Meulensteen jokes that "all of us - staff, coaches, masseurs, groundsmen etc - put on our balaclavas and went over to Rooney's home to explain to him that going to City was not done."

The Guardian World News Daniel Taylor 2011

Meulensteen refers to the night when a mob of 30 United fans turned up outside Rooney's house to warn him of dire consequences if he followed Carlos Tevez across Manchester.

The Guardian World News Daniel Taylor 2011

The ink and watercolor work in his current Meulensteen show also bring him back to his home city, but this time through art that he made there as a student more than half a century ago.

NYT > Home Page By HOLLAND COTTER 2011

Meulensteen is the first senior employee at Old Trafford to speak openly about the widely held suspicion behind the scenes that a deal was being put in place to take Rooney to Eastlands, reflecting on it being

The Guardian World News Daniel Taylor 2011

In 2009 at the Max Protetch Gallery, now the Meulensteen, he exhibited a large sculpture, "Murder in Tehran," designed as a memorial to the young activist Neda Agha-Soltan, who was shot and killed during protests that greeted the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that year.

NYT > Home Page By HOLLAND COTTER 2011

Welbeck was one of the first generation of United Academy products to enjoy the skills coaching of Rene Meulensteen.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Henry Winter 2011