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"I've never seen him as a top, top player" – Wayne Rooney makes feelings clear about Neymar with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo comparison

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Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney has asserted that Brazil icon Neymar is not a generational footballer like Argentina great Lionel Messi and Portugal legend Cristiano Ronaldo.

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One of the best English footballers in history, Wayne Rooney, has stated that for him, Neymar has never been a world-class player. Despite the fact that he played for Barcelona and PSG, and still officially holds the title of the most expensive footballer of all time, Rooney believes that Neymar is overrated, and the main reason for this is that he has done nothing with the Brazilian national team. Speaking to Sky Sports, Rooney said that he lik…

Wayne Rooney stated that he never considered Neymar an elite player during his participation in the podcast The Overlap, published in this Friday (19). The former attacker, the greatest artist in the history of Manchester United, placed the Brazilian under names such as Lionel Messi and Christian Ronaldo when assessing the height of the career of the shirt 10. The discussion began after Gary Neville asked if any player of the First League would …

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Sportskeeda broke the news in on Thursday, March 19, 2026.
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