{"id":208935,"date":"2025-10-18T13:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/208935\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T13:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:48:12","slug":"wayne-rooney-names-who-he-believes-are-the-four-biggest-man-utd-legends-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/208935\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney names who he believes are the four biggest Man Utd legends ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wayne Rooney has named four icons that would make a \u2018Mount Rushmore\u2019 of Manchester United legends.<\/p>\n

Things may be tough for Manchester United<\/a> right now, but that doesn\u2019t take away from the club\u2019s incredible history.<\/p>\n

The Red Devils have won a record 13 Premier League<\/a> titles as well as three European Cups, but there have also been plenty of low points in the club\u2019s history, such as the Munich Air Disaster<\/a> and relegation from the First Division in 1974.<\/p>\n

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That means United fans<\/a> have seen the best players to play in England. Some of them graduated from United\u2019s academy<\/a> before winning the biggest honours in football.<\/p>\n

\"SirPhoto by John Peters\/Manchester United via Getty ImagesWayne Rooney\u2019s Man Utd edition of Mount Rushmore<\/p>\n

After scoring 253 goals for United, Wayne Rooney<\/a> will go down in history as the club\u2019s top goalscorer.<\/p>\n

Rooney won everything he could at United, but couldn\u2019t find a place for himself on his very own MUFC-themed Mount Rushmore.<\/p>\n

Instead, he picked two former managers and two former players.<\/p>\n

The first selection went to Sir Alex Ferguson<\/a>, who managed Rooney for nine years and left an incredible legacy behind him at Old Trafford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Next up after Ferguson is Sir Matt Busby<\/a> for rebuilding the club after the air disaster in 1958.<\/p>\n

The first player to make the United Mount Rushmore is Sir Bobby Charlton<\/a>, who is followed by Ryan Giggs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Giggs is the most decorated player in English football history, and he is the only player on the list that Rooney played with during his time at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

Wayne Rooney makes Anfield admission before Man Utd trip<\/p>\n

Speaking ahead of United\u2019s trip to Anfield, Rooney has warned it will be a \u201chorrible place to go\u201d for Ruben Amorim\u2019s<\/a> side on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Liverpool are looking to end a run of three defeats across all competitions, while United are trying to climb up the Premier League table from 10th.<\/p>\n

Rooney has predicted a difficult evening for his former club when Amorim\u2019s team take on the reigning champions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think, going to Anfield in any situation, regardless of whether Liverpool have lost a few games, you go and these players, and the press and high end of the crowds up at Anfield, and it was a horrible, horrible place to go,\u201d Rooney said on his self-titled\u00a0BBC\u00a0show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think just with Liverpool losing three games, and that pride kicks in, and the fans will know, the fans are not stupid.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ll know, they\u2019ll get behind the team and push them. So, I think if United come away with a few points that\u2019d be huge.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the Liverpool [and] United [rivalry] is more deep hate, I think Everton [and] Liverpool, because it\u2019s your family that are Liverpool fans, it\u2019s not hatred, it\u2019s just a rivalry but I think United Liverpool is deep, deep hatred.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the cities [of] Liverpool and Manchester \u2013 the people are so similar.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I think that\u2019s a working class, down to earth families which adds to it. It\u2019s similar cities, similar culture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney has named four icons that would make a \u2018Mount Rushmore\u2019 of Manchester United legends. Things may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55,28552],"class_list":["post-208935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wayne-rooney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}