Wayne Rooney would 'walk to Manchester City' if Pep Guardiola asked him to be his assistant and hailed him as the best manager in the Premier League.
The Spaniard has transformed City into the most dominant team in European football since arriving at the Etihad in 2016, leading them to a historic Treble last term.
Guardiola has won 12 major trophies at City and remains on course to lift his fourth consecutive Premier League title, having finished top of the league in five of the past six seasons.
As a player with Manchester United, Rooney twice lost to Guardiola's Barcelona side in the Champions League final in 2009 and 2011 and revealed he would love the opportunity to work under the Catalan.
'It depends [on whether I’d ever be an assistant] – if Pep Guardiola comes in and asks me to be his assistant, you’d walk there!,' he said speaking on the latest episode of the Stick to Football podcast with Sky Bet.
'But you see what [Mikel] Arteta is doing now and I strongly believe a lot of that is from learning what Guardiola was doing and so it depends on what the situation is.'
Arteta won two Premier League titles, an FA Cup and two League Cups in three seasons as Guardiola's assistant at City, before replacing Unai Emery at Arsenal in December 2019.
The former Premier League midfielder won the FA Cup in his first season in charge and has turned the Gunners into serial title contenders again, while overseeing a dramatic overhaul of the squad he inherited.
Arteta has credited Guardiola for being a major influence on his managerial career and, like his mentor, he is similarly demanding of his players and shares the same tactical philosophy.
Speaking in October, Guardiola insisted Arteta's success at Arsenal 'belongs to Mikel and his
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