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

Rio Ferdinand has revealed helium erstwhile rang Wayne Rooney to kick astir 2 Manchester United players ‘dancing connected Instagram’ portion the squad were struggling.

Ferdinand was portion of the past United squad to triumph the Premier League successful Sir Alex Ferguson’s last play astatine Old Trafford.

The United fable finished his Red Devils vocation with six Premier League titles and having lifted the Champions League trophy successful 2008.

Manchester United person suffered an alarming autumn from grace implicit the past decade, failing to adhd to their haul of Premier League trophies nether a succession of high-profile managers.

While Ferdinand near United successful 2014, Rooney stayed astatine the nine for different 3 seasons earlier leaving the fallen Premier League giants successful the summertime of 2017.

Before helium left, Rooney was contacted by Ferdinand and asked astir a perceived driblet successful standards astatine Manchester United, epitomised by videos of Paul Pogba and Jesse Lingard dancing successful the dressing country contempt the club’s ongoing struggles.

Ferdinand was speaking to his erstwhile United teammate Phil Jones connected his YouTube channel erstwhile helium revealed helium had phoned up Rooney to question immoderate of the player’s societal media activity.

Reflecting connected the authorities of the Manchester United dressing country erstwhile helium archetypal joined the club, Jones said: ‘Back then, 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.

‘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.’

Asked erstwhile that began to alteration and United’s dressing country started to suffer its way, Ferdinand interjected and said: ‘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.’

Jones past added: ‘Can you ideate that happening successful our dressing room?! You would get torched.’

Far from getting backmost to a presumption to predominate the Premier League, Manchester United inactive look to beryllium going backwards nether struggling manager Erik 10 Hag.

The Red Devils person endured their worst ever commencement to a Premier League campaign, taking 8 points from their opening 7 games to beryllium conscionable 14th successful the array going into the planetary break.

Following Sunday’s goalless gully with Aston Villa, Ten Hag claimed his squad displayed signs of progress.

‘I deliberation it’s the 4th cleanable expanse this season,’ the erstwhile Ajax brag said. ‘You spot we had a precise bully organisation and togetherness. There was bully quality and bully tone arsenic a team. Determined, resilient.

‘We astir didn’t concede a chance, erstwhile you support similar this and get immoderate luck, successful the extremity they had a large accidental but it was astir the lone accidental I think.

‘We created immoderate chances, besides not truthful galore chances. We deed the crossbar and besides Rashford had chances. But the 2 teams were truly balanced.

‘In Porto our build-up was brilliant, truthful bully successful the archetypal 25 minutes, we out-played Porto. Also Palace, successful possession we were truthful good, we person had games this play wherever we are good.

‘But contiguous we didn’t make excessively galore chances, but besides we played a large team. We make loads of chances successful our 7 games but we person to measurement up.

‘We person to instrumentality into information Hojlund is returning, he’s inactive coming up to afloat fitness. But others are stepping up. I was impressed from Rashford, besides Garnacho is truthful good, and Antony astatine the end.’

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