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Wayne Rooney would ‘stroll to Manchester City‘ if Pep Guardiola requested him to be his assistant and hailed him as the perfect supervisor within the Premier League.
The Spaniard has remodeled City into essentially the most dominant staff in European soccer since arriving on the Etihad in 2016, main them to a historic Treble final time period.
Guardiola has received 12 main trophies at City and stays on target to elevate his fourth consecutive Premier League title, having completed high of the league in 5 of the previous six seasons.
As a participant with Manchester United, Rooney twice misplaced to Guardiola’s Barcelona aspect within the Champions League ultimate in 2009 and 2011 and revealed he would love the chance to work underneath the Catalan.
‘It relies upon [on whether I’d ever be an assistant] – if Pep Guardiola is available in and asks me to be his assistant, you’d stroll there!,’ he stated talking on the newest episode of the Stick to Football podcast with Sky Bet.
Wayne Rooney (left) would ‘stroll to Manchester City’ if Pep Guardiola (proper) requested him to be his assistant
The Manchester United legend believes Guardiola is the perfect supervisor in England
Guardiola has received the Premier League with City in 5 of the previous six seasons
‘But you see what [Mikel] Arteta is doing now and I strongly consider plenty of that’s from studying what Guardiola was doing and so it will depend on what the state of affairs is.’
Arteta received two Premier League titles, an FA Cup and two League Cups in three seasons as Guardiola’s assistant at City, earlier than changing Unai Emery at Arsenal in December 2019.
The former Premier League midfielder received the FA Cup in his first season in cost and has turned the Gunners into serial title contenders once more, whereas overseeing a dramatic overhaul of the squad he inherited.
Arteta has credited Guardiola for being a serious affect on his managerial profession and, like his mentor, he’s equally demanding of his gamers and shares the identical tactical philosophy.
Speaking in October, Guardiola insisted Arteta’s success at Arsenal ‘belongs to Mikel and his folks and it isn’t all the way down to me’, Rooney insisted the City supervisor’s influence was clear.
And the previous England striker, who was sacked by Birmingham final month after dropping 9 of his 15 video games in cost, stated Guardiola remained a trailblazer within the Premier League.
‘The approach the sport’s gone – it’s unusual,’ he defined.
Rooney believes Mikel Arteta (proper) learnt an enormous quantity from working underneath Guardiola (left)
‘I watched certainly one of our video games again, towards Liverpool from about 15 years in the past, and the distinction to how the sport was performed then to how it’s now’s large.
‘For me, the perfect supervisor is Pep [Guardiola], and also you have a look at how he adapts – how they [Manchester City] are enjoying now shouldn’t be the identical as how they had been enjoying 4 years in the past.
‘He retains making these delicate adjustments, and then you definitely see everybody else making an attempt to do the identical.
‘It’s essential to have your individual rules and concepts of what you wish to do and that’s what I’ve tried to do at Derby, DC [United] and at Birmingham, however sadly it didn’t work.’
Rooney was talking on the Stick to Football podcast, dropped at you by Sky Bet