Wayne Rooney discusses his strained relationship with Sir Alex Ferguson and his decision to consider leaving Manchester United in 2010. He explains how Ferguson's management style involved pushing his buttons at half-time to motivate other players, and how he sought clarity from David Gill regarding the club's future direction.
On the international stage, Rooney was once England's top scorer but has since been overtaken by Harry Kane. In total, he was capped 120 times, scoring 53 goals in the process.Rooney spent the prime years of his career at United, winning five Premier League s and one UEFA Champions League among other trophies.
However, back in 2010, Rooney reportedly wanted to leave the club after the sales of Carlos Tevez and Cristiano Ronaldo, with only Phil Jones and Chris Smalling coming in as new faces. The forward wished to seek further clarity by going to then chairman David Gill, who explained United were set to head into something of a transitional period.podcast back in February, the former DC United boss explained how David Gill was the one to provide further context on plans for the football club moving forward.
"Manchester United offered me a new five-year deal but then we just sold Tevez, we just sold Ronaldo and I said to the manager, 'It's no disrespect to Phil Jones or Chris Smalling – they are obviously not going to replace Ronaldo and Tevez."Is it going to be a three, four-year transition, or is it going to be we're going to win trophies now and he told me to get out of his office – so then I got more sense out of David Gill of what the plan was.
“I think the manager loved that. He knew, by doing that to me, he was getting a message to the other players. He did it with Giggsy as well.
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