The former Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney who is also an England record goalscorer believes he should have scored more goals for the United during his carrier, even though he was not a finisher.
Rooney, who was groomed at Everton and Joined the Red Devils in the year 2004, has a record of netting 253 goals in 559 appearances during his 13years of a carrier at the Old Trafford club that saw the United’s pile up plenty of trophies.
Rooney has distinguished himself as greater than the 1966 World-Cup winner Bobby Charlton as the United’s all-time leading scorer, just as he had in England with the record of 53 goals in 120 appearances.
Despite all the records, Rooney revealed in his Sunday times column that: ‘I am going, to be honest – and this might surprise you – am not a natural goal scorer”.
The United Legend who is now a player-coach at second-tier Derby country added: ‘I was never a Garry Lineker or a Ruud Van Nistelrooy: I never looked at myself that way, he said.
The 34 years old player revealed, “I hold the goal records for Manchester United and England and am very proud about that — yet there have been better No 9 than me.
“How did I become a record-breaker if I wasn’t a natural scorer? Time,” Rooney explained.
“I played for United for 13 years, England for 15 years.
I had time to break those records — and looking back I should have scored more.”
Rooney, however, admitted that: “I don’t think it will take long for Harry Kane to claim my England record and it would be a proud moment for me,”
“The United record might last longer simply because players don’t stay at clubs as long as they used to.
“Mind you, if (Lionel) Messi or (Cristiano) Ronaldo came to Old Trafford for a swansong they’d probably break it in three or four years,” Rooney concluded.
