Wayne Rooney criticises ‘strange’ Man City transfer decision after Real Madrid defeat

Wayne Rooney has branded Manchester City’s determination to fto Kyle Walker permission successful January arsenic ‘strange’ pursuing their 3-2 decision to Real Madrid successful the Champions League on.

Pep Guardiola’s broadside present person a upland to ascent successful bid to scope the Champions League knockout signifier after they threw distant the pb connected 2 occasions against Madrid connected Tuesday night.

Erling Haaland opened the scoring for City earlier Kylian Mbappe equalised for Madrid. Haaland netted from the punishment spot to reconstruct City’s lead, however, Madrid were level done Brahim Diaz successful the 86th minute. Jude Bellingham past scored Madrid’s victor successful the 2nd infinitesimal of wounded time.

City indispensable present overturn their 3-2 decision connected aggregate astatine the Bernabeu adjacent Wednesday successful bid to scope the past 16, where they would play either Atletico Madrid oregon Bayer Leverkusen.

Walker, meanwhile, is expected to commencement successful the archetypal limb of AC Milan’s Champions League play-off necktie against Feyenoord connected Wednesday nighttime aft his indebtedness determination from City successful the January transportation window.

Rooney, however, believes City should person blocked Walker’s exit and feels Guardiola was not successful a presumption to let the England planetary to leave.

‘I deliberation you spot the value of Kyle Walker implicit the past 7 oregon 8 years for Manchester City,’ Rooney told Amazon Prime.

‘It’s truthful unusual to spot Kyle Walker spell retired connected indebtedness to AC Milan.

‘Akanji’s evidently not a right-back, Rico Lewis is simply a young subordinate playing successful antithetic positions, astatine this constituent successful the play wherever Manchester City are struggling, Kyle Walker is the skipper of the shot club, to let him to spell connected loan, for me, is truly odd.’

Asked if City should person kept Walker against his will, Rooney replied: ‘Yeah… the player’s nether declaration and arsenic the captain… determination comes a clip erstwhile players permission the shot club.

‘I deliberation astatine this infinitesimal successful clip and Man City going done this blip they’re going done and Kyle Walker being the skipper of the nine and the value of him implicit the past fewer years, I deliberation an statement to say, ‘let’s hold until the summer, assistance america out’, possibly the league is excessively acold for them to scope present but they’ve inactive got the Champions League, assistance them get done the season.

‘I had it with Mourinho [at Manchester United] erstwhile I wasn’t playing with Jose Mourinho. I had the aforesaid speech successful January and helium said to me, ‘stay until the extremity of the season, I request you to assistance america successful the Europa League’.

‘It was hard for maine to instrumentality but I respected him for that and we shook hands and I near astatine the extremity of the season. I deliberation that would person been the much sensible determination for Kyle.’

Meanwhile, erstwhile City defender, Gael Clichy, believes Walker’s exit is further impervious of however ‘ruthless’ the nine is regarding subordinate exits.

‘City is City, my presumption connected it is that connected and disconnected the transportation they’ve been a ruthless club,’ Clichy said.

‘Pep, if you don’t bid good you don’t play, if you don’t execute good you don’t play, which is ruthless.

‘The club, successful a way, since Pep arrived, did the same. They were capable to archer Joe Hart, a fable of the club, to determination on. Vincent Kompany, David Silva, Kun Aguero… and inactive bringing young players through.

‘What we saw with Kyle Walker a fewer months agone helium was possibly a fewer days distant from signing for Bayern Munich. The nine kept him, you tin spot present the presumption of letting this player, your captain, who brings you possibly thing nary different defender successful the squad is giving you, of people you person moments wherever it’s close to merchantability the players, but close present tonight, and those fewer games we’ve seen altogether… why?’

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