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Zlatan: Rooney deserves respect
- Updated: November 25, 2016
Zlatan Ibrahimovic says Manchester United team-mate Wayne Rooney is “the perfect player” and believes his club’s all-time leading scorer in Europe should get more respect.
Rooney’s goal in the 4-0 Europa League win over Feyenoord on Thursday night was his 39th in continental competitions for United, a tally that saw him eclipse Ruud van Nistelrooy as the leading marksman in European games, and it also leaves him just one behind Sir Bobby Charlton’s all-time haul of 249.
His latest effort came just five days after he vowed he was “not finished yet” as an England international following the publication of images of the 31-year-old in the team hotel bar late at night.
Ibrahimovic says he is “used to” similar treatment in Sweden but feels Rooney deserves to be more respected for his …
