Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney has said that he felt embarrassed during his final days at the club. Rooney played his 120th and final match for England last night against USA.
Rooney joined Manchester United from Everton in 2004 and became the club’s record scorer. He scored 253 goals in 559 appearances for the club.
However, Rooney said that he wanted to leave the club during his final days at the club. He said, “There are times when you doubt yourself as a player, you think: ‘Am I good enough?’
The time Jose Mourinho left me out of the Manchester United team. There are moments when you do doubt yourself, I believe I was good enough to get back in the team, but I never really got that opportunity. I came on for one minute in the Europa League final, I was about to come on against Southampton in the League Cup final, and in those moments it was embarrassing.
It was getting to a point where I was embarrassed, I thought: ‘I can’t keep doing this,’ as hard as it was to leave Man United. In the Southampton game, Mourinho came to me and said: ‘I want you to lift the trophy.’
I was like: ‘Well, I didn’t even play in the game.’ He was persistent with it, and I literally lifted it and moved it on! I just knew… what was I doing? I need to move on and go somewhere else.”
