Everton news: Opinion – Neudm Onuoha on Wayne Rooney

BBC Sport pundit and former Manchester City defender Nedum Onuoha has been answering your questions on your club.

Finley asked: As you were a defender, who was the most difficult attacking player you’ve played against and why did you find them hard to contain?

Nedum replied: If I am going off someone I played against several times, it would have to be Wayne Rooney.

Before we both made our professional debuts, I remember seeing him play for Everton in the Youth Cup. They said there was this kid that was supposed to be unbelievable and is only about 16 years old.

The Youth Cup was for under-18s, yet I watched him bully City’s 18 year olds that day.

I must have been about 15 at the time and I remember thinking that was interesting. Fast forward a few months and he was scoring that goal against Arsenal.

As a player, he had so much drive, passion and technical ability but he also had the desire to be involved in the game as well. Whenever you played against him, it was very rare he would have a quiet day because if he was quiet in front of goal, he would still have an active day in how he was pressing and going into one-on-one battles.

Rooney was a strong runner, he had an eye for a pass and was just super aggressive as well. So if he hadn’t scored against you then you would know he had had a different level of impact within his team.

Plus, when he finished his career, he was England and Manchester United’s top goalscorer, which are two pretty impressive accolades in the history of football.

Nedum Onuoha was speaking to BBC Sport’s Katie Stafford