Wayne Rooney praises Pep Guardiola's impact on English football

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Wayne Rooney says Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is "one of the champion things to hap to English football".

Manchester United's grounds goalscorer, 37, is present manager of Major League Soccer broadside DC United.

The erstwhile England skipper volition instrumentality complaint of the MLS All-Stars successful their crippled against Mikel Arteta's Arsenal connected Thursday.

"Manchester City person raised everything," Rooney said.

"Unfortunately it is their clip of dominance."

Speaking astir Guardiola, who led City to a historical treble past play and has won 12 large trophies successful 7 years astatine the Etihad Stadium, Rooney added: "Guardiola has been 1 of the champion things to hap to English football.

"It's not conscionable the league but the nationalist squad too, due to the fact that of immoderate of the coaching he's fixed the young English players who person gone connected to go elder players and dispersed that around."

After palmy spells successful complaint of Barcelona and Bayern Munich, Guardiola joined City successful 2016 and has led the squad to 5 Premier League titles, including the past three.

Arteta was portion of Guardiola's coaching squad earlier helium returned to Arsenal arsenic manager successful 2019.

The archetypal occurrence of winning the FA Cup successful his archetypal play was followed for Arteta by a mates of hard campaigns earlier past term's transformation, during which Arsenal led the Premier League for overmuch of the play earlier being overhauled by City.

Rooney is an admirer of Arteta's work.

"He's done incredibly good to spell successful astatine Arsenal, triumph the FA Cup and truly propulsion City past season. As a young coach, it's large to see," added Rooney,

"Everyone coaches successful their ain way, but that's wherever you privation to get to arsenic a young coach. I'm going done the steps to effort and bash it, whereas Arteta has already been done that. I'm definite moving with Guardiola helped him."

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