Zlat splat off Giggs

“WHEN they say he is too outspoken in the media, if he is outspoken in the media about you, he has been outspoken to you directly.

“I had a situation at Inter where we had a bad first half and in front of the team at half-time, he was criticising me.

“I was supposed to be getting an award for being the best player in Italy and he said, ‘When you go on to that stage and receive your award, you should feel ashamed.

“‘The way you are playing now, you do not deserve it’. So him criticising players is nothing new. He said that in front of the team.

“It is all about how you take it. Me? I said to myself I will go out and show him and demonstrate I can do more and do better.” “I THINK being a coach is very stressful. One year is like 10 years.

“I see many coaches – first season, they have black hair, next season they have grey hair. “I think as an active player that when you become “IT’S GOOD to see Wayne Rooney here. We need more of the big European players coming to Major League Soccer, to spread out the quality, spread out the experience here.

“Rooney (left) was the right guy to bring. He brings a lot of quality, a lot of experience and he makes the game look easy, so I’m happy he is here. The football is OK – it is not Europe, but it is progressing. It is developing and I am more than happy to help it.” coach, you know the game from inside the field. And suddenly, you are standing on the outside and coaching the players what to do.

“And you know, deep inside, I would do it better. It’s a tricky thing.

“I don’t say no because you never know what happens, but… I don’t think so.” in yesterday’s Mirror for persistent TV appearances, particularly from Paul Scholes, questioning the performances of David Moyes, Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho since Ferguson retired in 2013.

But Giggs, the club’s record appearances holder said: “When you’ve played that many games between us you’re going to have an opinion. But obviously he knows more about the club than us.”

The six famous Class of 92 youngsters – Giggs, Scholes, Butt, David Beckham, Gary Neville and Phil Neville – played 3,450 games for the club. Ibrahimovic played 53.

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