Roy Keane and Ryan Giggs during his time at Manchester United. The attacker enjoyed an incredibly successful playing career, winning five Premier League titles, the Champions League and the FA Cup, as well as a multitude of individual awards.He is renowned for being one of the most talented players of his generation, also becoming England’s record goalscorer and captaining the Three Lions.Rooney spent the majority of his career playing for United, lining up alongside Giggs, Keane and many others in Sir Alex Ferguson’s dominant teams.But despite that success, Rooney has now admitted that he was “suffering inside” and felt unable to open up to his team-mates.“For a long period of my career, I was suffering inside.
I found a way to deal with that, a lot of it ended up in drinking,” he told the Mirror.“Where I felt stuck, I couldn’t go into the training ground and say I’m struggling with this mentally, or struggling to deal with this on my own.“I couldn’t go to the likes of Roy Keane or Ryan Giggs and tell them: ‘Listen, I’m struggling here.’ It’s not something you did back then.“Now it’s a lot easier to do that which is good because people are recognising the mental health issue and talking about it and trying to catch it early especially with some of the young lads who are struggling with that.”Rooney revealed that a multitude of things led to his mental health issues and eventually was able to get help from a psychologist.“It was a mixture of everything.
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