"Cristiano was very good and very boring at the same time" : When Wayne Rooney praised Ronaldo in his own way

Generous in his efforts as an actor, Wayne Rooney is also generous in the press. The Englishman has since 2021 replaced his player’s jersey with the coaching team of Derby County, an English minor league club. Wayne Rooney has made a particular mark in the history of Manchester United throughout his football career, where he played from 2004 to 2017 and holds the record for 253 goals scored. However, the actor, who is now 36 years old, hardly ever joined the Red Devils.

in an interview for SunWayne Rooney revealed the first words he said to Sir Alex Ferguson when he wanted to sign him to Manchester United: “Sir Alex Ferguson tried to sign me when I was 14 (in 1999). He was on the phone with my mom and dad. They said, ‘Alex is on the phone, he wants to hire Manchester United’. I said, ‘Tell him to fuck off. I want to play for Everton.“If Wayne Rooney started his career well at the training club at Everton between 2002 and 2004, the forward later surrendered to the sirens of Manchester United:”Then I realized over time that I had to play for Alex Ferguson. He’s the reason I signed for United.“

At the Mancunian club, Wayne Rooney stood shoulder to shoulder with the greatest football players of his generation, including Cristiano Ronaldo. The Englishman thus humorously evoked the qualities of the five-fold Ballon d’Or:Cristiano was very good and very frustrating at the same time. Probably not so good now but probably just as frustrating“before adding this CR7”likes to dive“, in reference to the two men’s confrontation during the match between England and Portugal at the 2006 World Cup. A meeting where two teammates were hit at the time as Ronaldo pushed the referee to send Rooney out: “Whoever it was, I had no problems with Cristiano. I talked to him in the tunnel. I told him, ‘I don’t have a problem with you sending me,’ because I spent the first half trying to pull him into the red for a dip. I am English, he is Portuguese. When we play, I don’t care about it. She \ He is not my friend. But when we’re done, we’re friends again.” 37-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Manchester United last summer and has scored 18 goals in 32 appearances since the start of the season. Wayne Rooney, meanwhile, is the club’s last in the Championship and is in major difficulty with Derby County.

Benoit Lesueur