"When he goes on to that training field, the first thing Rooney does is get a ball and batters it over my head. One of these days he will hit me — and he will get killed.
"Paul Scholes is the same. I was always shouting ‘Scholes’ as balls whistled by my head. And he’d reply ‘What?’ as if he was supposed to be doing that.
"Wayne is similar to Paul because he just loves playing.
"After training he gets the ball and does his free-kicks, he is finishing all the time. I always felt he was a player that could re-shape our future and that is the way it looks at the moment."