Wayne Rooney
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And what about when he left you out?
He obviously didn't enjoy it because I was one of the players who never took it well.
I wanted to play every week.
And we'd have disagreements over it.
I think that's good in football.
Players and managers, they should have debates.
But at the end of the day, he was the manager.
He made decisions and I had to respect that.
At times it was really simple.
Some of the team talks was to go and win the game.
You 11 players are better than that 11.
Work it out for yourselves on the pitch.
So we give you that responsibility.
If we've got a player sent off, the players work out how we change the formation themselves on the pitch.
And then if there was a problem, the manager would change it.
And then in the big games, that's when he'd get his tactics right and he'd do certain things.
But a lot of it was...