Ferdinand snubs Rooney when naming best player hes ever played with

Manchester United legend Rio Ferdinand snubbed Wayne Rooney to name Paul Scholes as the best player he ever shared a United dressing room with.

Rooney and Ferdinand have recently exchanged plenty of jibes at each other with the Derby County manager describing his former England team mate as being ‘arrogant’. His comment prompted an almost immediate exchange from the former Leeds United and West Ham ace, who suggested Rooney had “loose lips” when he made those comments.

While the pair have both admitted they regularly argued on the pitch and do retain a mutual admiration for one another, their back and forth has been fascinating. And amidst these exchanges, Ferdinand stated Scholes and Cristiano Ronaldo were the two best players he played alongside at United.

“Scholesy was the best trainer, standard-wise. Every day he was always one of the top two or three trainers,” Ferdinand said while speaking on behalf of William Hill.

“Scholesy was the best player I shared a changing room with. Cristiano (Ronaldo) was the best player obviously, but I played right behind Scholesy so I would pass the ball to him.

"So for example, I would play the ball into him at 10/15 yards and I would shout to him ‘Giggsy/Becks/Cristiano’ or someone like that, and he wouldn’t even look, he would just take a touch or play it first time at 30 yards and it would bang." Ferdinand provided the defensive foundations during an incredibly successful spell which saw him win six Premier League titles, the Champions League, four League Cup and the Club World Cup under Sir Alex Ferguson.

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He also shared an Old Trafford room with dozens of top players including Rooney, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dimitar Berbatov and countless other world class talents. But further divulging into why Scholes was good, Ferdinand stated the midfielder’s brilliance is only further accentuated by the fact he did not possess lots of physical attributes.

“I loved it, it was what made him different. Playing close to him and seeing it first-hand set him apart from the rest for me," he continued.

“He wasn’t big, he wasn’t quick, he didn’t have any of the physicality of the other top players. If you saw him in Sainsbury’s you would never pick him out as a footballer, so it shows you how good he must have been.”

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