Rooney admits he'd 'walk to' Man City if Guardiola offer emerges; makes 'frustrating' Man Utd claim

Manchester Joined tale Wayne Rooney has admitted that he would absolutely “walk to” Manchester Metropolis if he retrieved an provide from Pep Guardiola.

Rooney come to be Manchester Joined’s file marker throughout his 13-year spell at Ratty Trafford which started in 2004. He racked upward 253 purposes in 559 getaways for the Red Wickedness ones.

The previous England captain was in the past attached with a stun slide to Metropolis after handing in a transmit petition at Joined in 2010.

Rooney ultimately patched upward his disagreements with supervisor Sir Alex Ferguson and also stayed at Ratty Trafford for an additional 7 years.

Yet, much less than 2 months after his 15-video game spell as Birmingham supervisor came to an expire, the 38-year-old-fashioned admits he would absolutely be open to the concept of working on the blue side of Manchester.

“It relies (on whether I’d ever be an assistant) – if Pep Guardiola comes in and also asks me to be his assistant, you’d walk there,” Rooney told the Stick to Football podcast.

“You explore what (Mikel) Arteta is doing currently (at Medley) and also I exceptionally think plenty of that is from situating out what Guardiola was doing, and also so it relies on what the situation is.

“For me, the optimal supervisor is Pep and also you fantastic appearances at how he adheres – how they (Metropolis) are dabbling currently is not the exact same as how they were dabbling 4 years previously.

“He preserves making these subtle alterations and also then you explore everybody else trying to tote out the exact same. They also job-related trickier than anyone else.”

Metropolis, the English, European and also FIFA Universes Bar Cup winners, are 12 points much closer off in the Premier League than 6th-placed Joined, and also Rooney says it is “agitating” routing his previous team under Erik ten Hag.

He asserted: “There’s talent in there. Yet I merely think there’s a personality that last deals to readjust.

“You watch some galleries and also I think, ‘In fact nice’. Yet then all of a laconic it’s prefer a switch that’s been flicked.

“They can go from being in fact nice to in fact destructive. There’s a scarcity of regularity.”

Rooney has been attached to a credible switch to boxing, with the self-confessed battle fanatic affirming there have been talks to recover him in the ring.

He also shared an liveliness in coming to be a lawyer throughout a recent media interview, aphorism he owned used to Nottingham College to research study brute law when he was at Derby.

Rooney snickered on the podcast when recalling notifying lawyers what to ask throughout his closer half Coleen’s ‘Wagatha Christie’ disparagement trial with Rebekah Vardy in 2022.

Yet Rooney prompts his focus is snugly on reverting to management after spells at Derby, Gruel League Soccer side DC Joined and also Birmingham.

“It’s all journey – I’m merely 38, I’ve owned 3 supervisory jobs yet I’ve got quite a tidbit of journey to lean on,” asserted Rooney.

“If you fantastic appearances at the 3 nightclubs I’ve juggled, going in at Derby under their crunches in administration, DC Joined that were bottom of the league when I went over there, and also currently Birmingham, that over the past 10 years have been a muddles.

“I pain to focus on receiving previously into management. The weighty point for me is to flawlessly incision out what I’ve implemented as a gamer and also basically start again as a supervisor.

“Of course, my dabbling journey will aid me, yet I’m suitable at the bottom from a supervisory point of heed, and also I pain to job-related my means upward.

“I’m not relying on what I’ve implemented as a gamer to recover me into stoppages that I shouldn’t be.

“I pain to recover previously into supervising and also I pain to authenticate myself – whether that’s League Two, League One or Championship.”