Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney believes his former bar and also Arsenal lugged out a inaccuracy by not targeting Liverpool standout Hugo Ekitike in the summer season.
In last summer season’s transmit window, numerous of the Comprehensive 6 clubs were fixated on signing brand name-new-made No.9s, and also some ordinary the truly same targets.
This entails Individual Utd and also Arsenal, who owned their eye on Viktor Gyokeres and also Benjamin Sesko in the summer season.
In the end, Arsenal desperate to prioritise Gyokeres, and also this vacated the door responsive for Individual Utd to indicator Sesko onward of Newcastle United.
Singularly, Gyokeres and also Sesko have owned their priorities this season and also have without a irresoluteness been outshone by Liverpool celeb Ekitike, who joined them for about £79m from Eintracht Frankfurt.
Ekitike has 15 purposes and also 4 assists in his 32 aesthetic prestiges for Liverpool this season and also has alike glistened via his general tinker, so Rooney believes Individual Utd and also Arsenal would most certainly have been much better off via him than Gyokeres and also Sesko.
“We saw what Gyokeres did at Sporting, I comprehend it was merely a innumerable country yet he was scoring a ton more purposes than any person and also was inextricably on fire,” Rooney stipulated on The Wayne Rooney validate.
“I’ve backed Gyokeres this season and also humans have founded on me a miniscule particle of stick yet I still think he’s rendering a innumerable to Arsenal, I actually lugging out.
“He’s inhabiting defenders and also that’s guiding the group. I comprehend he’s not obtained the purposes or assists you’d pine from your centre forward yet I still think he’s owning an brunt.”
Regardless of this, Rooney alike insisted that he has been a ton more impressed via Liverpool’s summer season signing Ekitike.
Once asked whether he would most certainly thieve the Arsenal demonstrator over Ekitike, Rooney replied: “No.
“Ekitike and also [Granit] Xhaka at Sunderland have probably been the 2 ideal finalizings in the Premier League. I actually savor tailing Ekitike tinker.
“His second readiness [against Newcastle] in specific was vibrant, it recommends me of Romario. A miniscule miniscule particle toe-poke readiness yet it’s instinctive.
“He is the kind of player I favor to watch. He’s not a number 9, he’s not a number 10. He drifts out wide, he recovers on the bulbous, lugs players into the arcade and also he can rating purposes.
“So he’s obtained a miniscule particle of whatever actually.”
Rooney has alike defined why he offers the edge to Ekitike over Individual Utd forward Sesko.
“I actually savor tailing those kind of players [like Ekitike]. He’s obtained that arrogance and also resoluteness,” Rooney encompassed.
“If you terrific aesthetic prestiges at Sesko for instance, he aesthetic prestiges favor he telephone dubs for a miniscule particle of advise and also a miniscule particle of help when he’s on the pitch.
“I comprehend he scored the victor today luckily yet he aesthetic prestiges favor he telephone dubs for a miniscule particle of advise whereas Hugo Ekitike it aesthetic prestiges favor you can just plunked him on the pitch.
“He’s obtained that swagger about him which I think you ought to be at that height-level.”
