SCOUT· 51%50m·2026-09-13·SportsWhat If... Wayne Rooney joined Manchester City in 2010?
Ahead of the Manchester derby, this week on What If... we're talking about Wayne Rooney and the hypothetical around whether he could have possibly made the switch across Manchester from United to City back in 2010. Emma Paton is joined by The Athletic's Jack Pitt-Brooke and Dan Kilpatrick, as well as Andy Mitten from…
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“We would've won the UCL much earlier I cannot be convinced otherwise”
“Wayne Rooney was a wonderfully gifted footballer,but the one thing that he wasn't was an athlete,which in some ways was refreshing,but he seemed to age as a footballer rapidly.If he had joined us then we wouldn't have got Sergio,and there t…”
“Rooney was a beast and showed his brilliance day in, day out. Absolute legend.”
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