By Amie Wilson

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Former Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney has claimed that he would be ‘sacked’ if he was part of the current dressing room at Old Trafford . The former striker spent 13 years with United between 2004 and 2017. During that time, he played 559 games, scoring 253 goals for the club. Rooney hung up his boots in 2021. Despite him only being retired for a relatively short time, he is convinced that he would now struggle to cope in a modern day dressing room, like the one now at Old Trafford under Ruben Amorim . Speaking to former United teammate Rio Ferdinand on his Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast , the former England captain gave a simple response when asked if he, or former midfielder Roy Keane , would cope in the current United dressing room. “No,” he said. “We’d get sacked.” He then added: “Some of the stuff which got said in the dressing room. That’s where now, and it is society as well, you can’t say this because you might upset this person. “You’re a bully, and you get accused of bullying and stuff.” He went on to give his thoughts about the culture shift in dressing rooms. “What happened to speaking the truth and saying, like, ‘What are you doing?’ Having a go, because when you used to have a go at me, [I’m thinking] ‘I’m not letting him do that again’. Or I’d have a go at you,” he said. “It wakes you up. It brings you alive. And it’s a responsibility. I have a responsibility to keep you, to keep him, to keep him on their toes. And you have a responsibility. “I couldn’t do what I want to do on the pitch if it didn’t come from you, or then Carras [Michael Carrick] or Scholsey [Paul Scholes] behind. It’s a collective.” Rooney tried his hand at management, first with Derby County, before unsuccessful spells with Birmingham City and Plymouth Argyle. He has since concentrated on the punditry side of the game. “I’ve walked out of dressing rooms as a manager because I’ll explode,” he added on his time as a manager. “I’ve seen a player call another player out, not in a bad way, and it is what it is, it’s nothing. “And then I’ve seen another player saying, ‘You can’t do that. If you want to speak to him, do it one-on-one. This is bullying’. “And I’m stood there, waiting. I always let the players talk and I encourage them to talk to each other at half-time, at full-time. And then I’ll come in and say something. “And I heard that and I just looked. I was like, what am I going to say? ‘Just get a shower’. Walked out, didn’t say a word to them. And it’s mad, isn’t it? It’s society. “You don’t know what you can and can’t say as well. Got to be really careful in what you try and say, how you want to say it, how you project it, what tone of your voice you’re saying it in. “And so, it’s so many different things, but ultimately, you want to try and get the best from that person.”