Carlos Tevez names former Man Utd team-mate as ‘one of the best I players I’ve seen’

Carlos Tevez has picked out his former Manchester United team-mate Paul Scholes as one of the best players he has ever seen, though says he ‘identified’ with Wayne Rooney.

The Argentine performed for the Red Devils for 2 seasons from 2007-09, profitable two Premier League titles and a Champions League in a wildly profitable spell at Old Trafford.

Tevez went on to play for Manchester City and Juventus, amongst different groups, taking part in with some of the world’s best players, however has excessive reward for Scholes and Rooney.

‘I identified a lot with Rooney,’ Tevez instructed ESPN. ‘He got here from a poor space in Liverpool and at all times fought for the ball as if it had been the final.

‘Scholes was one of the best I players I’ve seen. That shot he had.’

The 35-year-old angered United followers by shifting to native rivals Manchester City, the place he went on to win one other Premier League title, however he appears to have solely fond recollections of his time at Old Trafford.

The striker recollects the time when he arrived at the membership driving an Audi and Rooney gave him his Lamborghini to assist him slot in.

‘I missed at penalty at Boca and they killed me, this didn’t occur at United,’ continued Tevez.

‘Even the worst participant got here with a Ferrari. I was there with an Audi which the membership had given me and so they all laughed at me.

‘”Take the Lamborghini,” Rooney told me. I went to find it at his house and he let me keep it for 10 days.’

Now again in his dwelling nation with Boca Juniors, Tevez says he had been eager for a return to Buenos Aires throughout his time with Juventus.

‘I was at my best level at Juventus in 2015 and we were playing the Champions League final against Barcelona, but I only thought about one thing: returning to Boca,’ Tevez mentioned. ‘It was the final Champions League sport in my life.

‘Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich wished me.

‘[I was] at my best and I thought, it’s time to go dwelling to be a champion. I promised [Andrea] Agnelli, the president of Juventus, that if we reached the ultimate, I would return to Boca.

‘I felt that I should go back to Boca and promised to do everything possible [to win silverware]. I just wanted to go home.’

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