Wayne Rooney
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But we had the experience with Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville.
Yeah, without doubt.
As what I was saying about me as a 16-year-old, that's what Manchester United become as a team.
All of us, we were young, hungry, we wanted to win, wanted to learn, we were...
As a team, we wanted to learn.
We weren't afraid of the manager saying to us, you've done this wrong, you've done that wrong.
We wanted to learn and get better as a team.
And it showed on the pitch.
We won a lot of trophies and got to a lot of finals.
No, I think in terms of goals maybe you might have scored a few more goals but
If you've got Cristiano Ronaldo on your team, you don't take away from him what he's best at, and that's being fresh and being ready when we win the ball to go and score you the goal.
If you're asking Cristiano Ronaldo to chase full-backs down, to run back in, you're taking a lot away from his game.
It probably does, but...
At the time, he was obviously the more dangerous player.
He's the one who's going to produce that magic, which is going to win us games.
So, as I said before, we were a team.
He didn't mind doing that.
Well, I think that was the first season I played as a lone striker.
And what I was saying before about Cristiano being fresh, everyone associates playing up front on your own as hard work.
You have to run, you have to... Physically, it's probably the easiest position to play because all you're doing is attacking.