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Wayne Rooney: Sir Alex Ferguson scares me but I'm staying at Manchester United
Rooney will stay and endure Fergie's hair-drier treatment...
31 Jan 2010 12:43:00
By Zack Wilson
Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has revealed there are times when he cannot face returning to the dressing room to endure Sir Alex Ferguson's rage.
Win or lose, the fiery Scot does not hold back from criticising his players and is certainly not adverse to using the hair-dryer treatment to improve second half performances.
However, the England international does not see that as any reason to leave Old Trafford, despite rumours circulating of big-money offers for him being readied in Spain.
"There are days when I don't want to see the manager," he told The Daily Mail.
"He can be fierce at times. Even after we have won 2-0 or 3-0, and the lads are laughing and joking and thinking they've played well, he sometimes comes in and lets loose.
"I'm left thinking: 'what's wrong?' Our dressing room is not a nice place to be when we lose. He's a perfectionist.
"I remember watching him when I was about eight!
"I'm so privileged to play with him. He's a great example for everyone, even for people like Paul Scholes, Gary Neville; he's been an example to them.
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Win or lose, the fiery Scot does not hold back from criticising his players and is certainly not adverse to using the hair-dryer treatment to improve second half performances.
However, the England international does not see that as any reason to leave Old Trafford, despite rumours circulating of big-money offers for him being readied in Spain.
"There are days when I don't want to see the manager," he told The Daily Mail.
"He can be fierce at times. Even after we have won 2-0 or 3-0, and the lads are laughing and joking and thinking they've played well, he sometimes comes in and lets loose.
"I'm left thinking: 'what's wrong?' Our dressing room is not a nice place to be when we lose. He's a perfectionist.
"[But] This is my club [Manchester United]. I'm very happy here.
"My family live 30 minutes away. I'm perfectly happy and there is no reason to play my football anywhere else. Manchester United are the biggest club in the world."
As for milestones, Rooney inists that it is collective achievement with United that drives him on, rather than picking up individual awards.
"The only figure I'm thinking of is winning that fourth League [title]," he added.
"No team has ever done that before. I am not interested in individual awards. If I get a lot of goals I'll be happy, but to be honest I'm more of a team player than someone interested in individual awards.
"The first League I won we dominated from day one until the end of the season and from then we've gone on and won the Champions League and two more titles.
"It's been an amazing three years and if the next three are anything like as successful, I know myself, the other players, the manager and the fans will be very happy.
"The club have won three European Cups, and winning five is achievable, because we are the biggest club in the world."For my first couple of years at United, Chelsea looked so strong, impossible to beat really, and I was thinking 'but I came here to win things... I'm not winning anything'.
"We knew we had to buck ourselves up - the players - to challenge them."
And it is 36-year-old veteran Ryan Giggs from who Rooney continues to draw his inspiration.
"It's amazing to play on the same team as him [Ryan Giggs]," he asserted."I remember watching him when I was about eight!
"I'm so privileged to play with him. He's a great example for everyone, even for people like Paul Scholes, Gary Neville; he's been an example to them.
"Everything about him says that he's a class act. He's played the record amount of games for United.
"I don't know how many goals he's scored, and how many medals he's won but his achievements are amazing and I don't think anyone will ever better them."
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