Wayne Rooney has hailed Sir Alex Ferguson as the greatest manager of all time, despite admitting to having “differences” with his former boss.

Ferguson and Rooney fell out in the final season of the Scot’s incredible Manchester United career, with Ferguson claiming Rooney had asked to leave the club for a second time – something the player denies.

But despite going through a difficult period in terms of his relationship with the man who brought him to Old Trafford in 2004, Rooney says he is of no doubt that Ferguson is the greatest of all time.

"I don't know if anyone knows how things ended [between us]," Rooney told national newspapers.

"We had differences [of opinion]. That's normal. Ask Roy [Hodgson, the England manager] -- he's had differences with other players. That's part of football.

  " I'm not the only person who had differences with Sir Alex Ferguson, but I can still sit here and say he was the greatest manager of all time."

"I still see Sir Alex quite a bit at games and he travels away to European games with us. It's not that we don't like each other. We just had differences. That's normal."

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