Gary Neville has revealed that tough love from former teammates Peter Schmeichel and Steve Bruce helped to develop him as a player at Manchester United.
Before he went on to captain the club and become a legend, Neville came through the youth ranks at United as a member of the famed Class of '92.
Yet making the jump from youth football to the elite level isn't an easy one and Neville credits the guidance given by the leaders in the squad for helping him make it, even if they didn't make it easy.
Neville made his debut in the first team as a 17-year-old in a UEFA Cup game against Torpedo Moscow and Schmeichel went out of his way to make it clear he didn't rate the young right-back in the slightest. "The one that was hardest with me was Peter
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