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Wayne Rooney could reunite with former Man Utd wonderkid for a FOURTH time as he weighs up Plymouth free transfer
The star has even been compared to football icon Lionel Messi
WAYNE Rooney could be reunited with Ravel Morrison for a FOURTH time, Sun Online can reveal.
Rooney played with the Jamaican international at Manchester United - and then signed him at Derby and DC United.
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Now, with Morrison available for free, Wazza is weighing up a move to take him to Plymouth.
Morrison - who is still only 31 - is widely regarded as one of the best players to ever come through the ranks at United.
But he’s been plagued by off-the-field issues and disciplinary woes.
Rooney however has always been close to Morrison and sources told Sun Online the ex-England, Manchester United and Everton legend thinks Morrison could do a job for him this season.
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The south coast side watched Morrison in a PFA-arranged friendly last week featuring players available on free transfers.
Morrison was a precocious talent in Manchester United's under-age sides, and in an interview earlier this month, ex-Man Utd 18’s manager Paul McGuinness says he learned plenty from working with him.
During his UTD Podcast episode, former Under-18s coach McGuinness was asked about the now-Jamaica international's much-discussed ability and argued that his subsequent career deserves to be viewed differently.
He believes Ravel had a way with the ball that was akin to how Argentina's great Lionel Messi draws opponents in.
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He was an amazing player,” McGuinness told co-hosts Helen Evans and Sam Homewood in the latest episode of the podcast. “And the best way to coach him was not to coach him.
”The best way was to create a game where his stuff would come out. If you start telling him what to do, he wasn't going to be having it, you know?
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"So he was an amazing player and I've had some really top players so it means that, as a coach, you learn from your players as well.
“So, in the sense that [fellow coach] Jim Ryan had a phrase. He said it's the 'arrogance of timing' and so some coaches in the position thought he was being arrogant. But it was just the way he played.
It was like Messi,” he recalled. “He'd wait for you, wait for you to go closer and closer. Close to the fire, without getting burnt and get close, then he just play it.
"And you'd be like 'oh, you'd better pass it now' and he wouldn't.
”You couldn’t tell him when to play it. No, he was too good for that, in that sense.
"So, yeah, he was amazing. I remember we won the league and then we won the Youth Cup and we played against Leeds in like the last [league] game, I think, and they didn’t see the ball for 10 minutes.
“And he was unbelievable and then, all of a sudden, the centre-half just kicked him from nowhere and the coach is on the side, Neil Redfearn, and said: ‘About time too!’
”He was like, somebody do something because he was too good! And he could do those things with the first team and a lot of people say: 'Oh yeah but he’s thrown it all away, he’s wasting it and so on'.
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“But, actually, if you know the full story from being younger, his background and different things, he may actually be one of the best performing.
"You know, he might actually have done well despite all the sort of disadvantages he had.”
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