Rio Ferdinand reveals he rang Wayne Rooney to complain about Man Utd duo

Manchester United person struggled to instrumentality to the glory days they enjoyed erstwhile Rio Ferdinand was a player, with the erstwhile defender near furious by the falling standards astatine the club

Rio Ferdinand has revealed helium erstwhile rang Wayne Rooney to kick astir the cognition of Paul Pogba and Jesse Lingard.

Ferdinand and Rooney were portion of the highly palmy Manchester United broadside led by legendary brag Sir Alex Ferguson. Together, they won 5 Premier League titles and the Champions League.

Ferdinand would permission successful 2014, though Rooney remained astatine Old Trafford for different 3 years. But those 3 years would beryllium to beryllium progressively hard for the Red Devils, who person ne'er returned to the heights they enjoyed nether Ferguson.

One infinitesimal successful peculiar near Ferdinand furious aft his departure. While Rooney was inactive astatine the club, Ferdinand rang his erstwhile team-mate aft seeing Pogba and Lingard dancing successful the dressing room.

He questioned the United fable implicit a driblet successful standards astatine the club, for which Rooney had nary answer. Ferdinand revealed the incidental during a speech with different erstwhile United team-mate Phil Jones.

Ferdinand was asked erstwhile United's dressing country mislaid its way. He replied: "I’ll archer you erstwhile it changed, from the extracurricular astatine least. I rang Wazza [ Wayne Rooney ] erstwhile I saw Paul Pogba and Jesse Lingard dancing connected Instagram erstwhile we were sixth successful the league.

"I rang Wazza and said, 'What’s going connected here? How are you allowing this?'. And helium said 'You can’t accidental thing man, it’s not the aforesaid anymore'. He said, 'It’s not conscionable those two, determination would beryllium a large radical looking astatine maine similar I’m huffy if I said anything'."

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Jones spent a sizeable magnitude of clip some successful the dressing country led by Ferguson and during their autumn from grace. He retired successful 2023 aft suffering a succession of large injuries.

Given his acquisition of the downturn successful fortunes, Jones delivered a withering verdict of the make-up of caller United squads. He urged the existent harvest of players to measurement up and amended their standards.

"Back past [when helium joined the club], erstwhile you look astatine the dressing country we had… we had truthful galore incredible, almighty leaders that wouldn’t fto thing get successful the mode of the team’s show and the squad winning," Jones added.

"That winning mentality was truthful beardown and almighty that nary 1 that came successful could disrupt that. I deliberation present players possibly don’t person the quality to telephone radical retired anymore and the powerfulness to archer them, 'That’s not what we bash astatine this shot club… don’t travel successful present and commencement acting similar that, that doesn’t enactment here'.

"I’m not saying that happens each azygous time astatine the nine but if we mislaid a game, we’d person a gathering the adjacent day, not adjacent with the coaches. The leaders would beryllium saying, 'This is not bully enough' aft 1 loss."

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