Wayne Rooney has named the four former Manchester United players who would get in Man City team

Wayne Rooney claims just four of the Manchester United squad from 2008 could make the current Manchester City group ahead of Sunday's Premier League clash.

The 37-year-old had an illustrious career at Old Trafford under Sir Alex Ferguson and went on to win more trophies under Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho. But, since Rooney's departure, United have struggled to keep up there at the top of English football and City have gone on to bigger and better things.

Manchester United's team in 2008 won the Premier League and Champions League double, alongside the Community Shield. They were one of the best teams in Europe of that era with Rooney, himself, starring alongside the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez.

“Could the 2008 United team have competed with City? Head to head, we’d have had a good chance but over a 38-game season they would have had the edge,” he wrote in his column for The Times.

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“I think we’d have been similar to Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool, able to beat them in one-off games but usually just a bit behind them in the final league table.”

Rooney then selected who he thought could make Pep Guardiola's current City team and the Birmingham City manager left out some big names. He also indicated an excitement at playing in Guardiola's setup.

“There were players in our team who would have got into this City side. Paul Scholes would have been perfect, Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic too. I believe I would have fitted into it as well — and I would have loved to play with Kevin De Bruyne and Haaland.”

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