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Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney has suggested the club\u2019s current struggles come down to a lack of leadership within the squad always keeping standards high.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Rooney was a teenager when he joined United in the summer of 2004 but was immediately able to look up to the likes of Gary Neville, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and Roy Keane as serial winners, copying their mentality and the examples they set.<\/p>\n
As that generation aged and was gradually phased out, Rooney found himself part of a new leadership group alongside the likes of Darren Fletcher, Wes Brown, John O\u2019Shea and Michael Carrick, the quartet he considers his best friends in football, as well as Rio Ferdinand.<\/p>\n
In the former captain\u2019s eyes,\u00a0United\u00a0haven\u2019t had that since he and the others left. Even in a squad with experienced winners like Casemiro and Raphael Varane, Rooney has questioned the absence of enough vocal leaders that he considers necessary to consistently get the best out of talented players, like Marcus Rashford, who have been too hit and miss in recent years.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou had yourself, Giggsy, Scholesy, Roy at the time for a short period,\u201d Rooney told Neville in a quickfire questions video on\u00a0The Overlap<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were Man Utd, it was your club, and then there was that little group behind you \u2013 in Rio, myself, Wes [Brown] and whatever. We knew we were the next ones and had to take that one from you.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s probably why the club is struggling now, because there was no one underneath us really to go and set the examples.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Wayne Rooney questioned if Man Utd have enough leaders \/ Michael Regan\/GettyImages<\/p>\n
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It was a point on which he elaborated in a\u00a0separate more in-depth interview\u00a0for the channel.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say you need five players in a dressing room that can lead a team,\u201d the 38-year-old said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne thing I would say with Manchester United now is, look at the team and you\u2019re still asking questions about who the leader is. I know Bruno [Fernandes] is captain, but who are the leaders there?<\/p>\n
\u201cI said this a few weeks ago, when\u00a0Marcus Rashford\u00a0was getting stick for his body language, I think he has always been like that. I don\u2019t think he has ever been a big talker on the pitch. When he is going through a tough moment, or you want him to work a little bit harder, that is where the senior players have got to demand that from him. That\u2019s the one thing I\u2019d say that I don\u2019t see.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery time Manchester United concede a goal their heads go down too quickly and you almost think there is no way they\u2019re getting back into the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney has suggested the club\u2019s current struggles come down to a lack of leadership within the squad always keeping standards high. Rooney was a teenager when he joined United in the summer of 2004 but was immediately able to look up to the likes of Gary Neville, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n
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