Wayne Rooney labels some of his former Everton team-mates as 'C**P'

‘I couldn’t believe how BAD some of them were!’: Wayne Rooney insists he was the best player at Everton as soon as he broke into the first-team at 16… branding some of his idols as ‘C**P’ and not good enough for the Toffees

• Wayne Rooney broke into the Everton first-team as a 16-year-old
• He has revealed that he immediately knew he was the best player in the team
• Rooney was a boyhood Everton fan and idolised some of the players in the squad
• He quickly realised when he trained with them that some of them were ‘c**p’ 

Wayne Rooney has revealed he thought some of his Everton team-mates were ‘c***’ when he first broke into the senior team as a teenager.

Rooney famously made his debut for the Toffees as a 16-year-old, and scored a memorable first Premier League goal just days before his 17th birthday against Arsenal.

The boyhood Everton fan has opened up about achieving his dream of getting into the first-team, but then quickly realising that he was already the best player in the team.

Former striker Wayne Rooney broke into the Everton senior team as a 16-year-old 

He idolised some Everton players, but quickly realised some of them were ‘c**p’

‘It’s mad how quick it changed,’ Rooney told Toffee TV when speaking about going from sharing a changing room with his idols to recognising the below-par standard of the squad.

‘For me to go in with Duncan (Ferguson), Stubbsy (Alan Stubbs), all of them who have I grew up watching, to then go and play with them, train with them every day and play with them, and then so quickly, I remember thinking: “These are c***!”‘ he told Toffee TV.  

‘Obviously not all of them, but some of the players I was thinking, “what’s going on here?”

‘I couldn’t believe how bad some of them were. I remember thinking “I’m better than all these players”.

‘That’s not disrespecting to them players but some of them just weren’t good enough and should never have played for Everton.’

After making his debut in 2002, Rooney spent two years at Everton before he decided to move to Manchester United in 2004.

His exit from Goodison Park was an acrimonious one, with fans angry that he had turned his back on the club he had supported from a young age.

Rooney has revealed he chose to leave Everton to join Man United after they tried to sell him to Chelsea without him knowing about it

Rooney has admitted that he wanted to remain at Everton for a little longer, but opted to leave that summer after the club tried to sell him to Chelsea behind his back.

‘From my point of view, ideally, I would have liked to have stayed for another year and see where we went from there,’ he said.

‘When the [2003/04] season finished, the club had tried to do a deal with Chelsea for me, without me knowing.

‘When I found out, I was fuming. I remember speaking with my agent and telling him that if they’re going to sell me, I should have a say in where I go. I don’t want to go to Chelsea. I didn’t want to leave at the time but once I knew they were trying to sell me, I thought ‘ok’.

‘I injured my foot at the Euros and went on holiday afterwards. When I came back, Everton wouldn’t let me train, in case I got injured, because they wanted to sell me. I left and took a lot of stick over leaving but I don’t think the club were too innocent either.’

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