‘I look at the team and you’re still asking questions about who the leader is’: Wayne Rooney on Manchester United’s underlying issues

Erik ten Hag won the FA Cup but Manchester United’s Premier League campaign was poor
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Wayne Rooney has spoken out following the whirlwind season that Manchester United have just endured.

The Red Devils slumped to their worst-ever Premier League spot, finishing eighth, while they finished bottom of their Champions League group, behind Bayern Munich, Galatasaray, and Copenhagen, respectively.

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Jacque Talbot is a freelance football journalist who predominantly specialises in transfer stories and exclusives. He began his career in 2016 covering the world-renowned Sandbach United, of North West Counties fame, before earning a spot on the sports desks of national papers, where he bounced between several outlets such as Sportbible, the Express, Mirror, and Daily Star. An NCTJ graduate of the News Associates who swapped investigative journalism in the Costa del Sol for football reporting in Northern England, he first wrote for FourFourTwo in December 2023.