Wayne Rooney claimed that Ravel Morrison was 'a country mile' ahead of Paul Pogba and Jesse Lingard when the three players were coming through the Manchester United academy together.
Off-field issues hampered Morrison at United and he left the club in 2012. Since leaving United, Morrison has played for a number of clubs but has consistently failed to deliver on his vast potential, and is currently on loan at Middlesbrough.
Pogba, meanwhile, also left United in 2012 but was re-signed for a then world-record £89million fee four years later. The two players' careers have followed different trajectories since their days together in the United academy but Rooney believes it was Morrison who was the better player as a teenager. "I remember
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