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Neville on Rooney’s future
- Updated: September 24, 2016
Gary Neville says Wayne Rooney will have a decision to make about his future role at Manchester United as he goes through a transitional phase in his career.
The United captain was dropped to the bench for the 4-1 win over Leicester on Saturday at Old Trafford, coming on for the last seven minutes of the game.
Jose Mourinho insisted Rooney was still “his man” at United, but Neville says the 30-year-old may have to adapt his game in the same way the likes of Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs did in order to prolong his Old Trafford career.
He said on the Gary Neville Podcast: “This is a transition into a new phase of his career, where he’s potentially got to play a different way.
“No player at 22 is the same at 32, 33, 34. If you look at Paul Scholes, he went from a marauding midfield to a holding midfield player, …