Simon Jordan jokes that Pep Guardiola will 'walk to Catalonia' to avoid Wayne Rooney after his admission to the job

Simon Jordan joked that Pep Guardiola would run a mile to avoid working with Wayne Rooney.

Despite being a Manchester United legend, rooney He admitted that he would take advantage of the opportunity to work with the Spaniard.

Guardiola He has won 12 trophies since arriving at the Etihad in 2016 and achieved a historic treble at the end of last season.

The Catalan coach has also known how to guide them to the top of the classification first division in five of the last six campaigns.

“It depends (on whether I would ever be an assistant). If Pep Guardiola came in and asked me to be his assistant, would you come forward!” Rooney said speaking on the latest episode of Stay with football podcast with Sky Bet.

“But you look at what (Mikel) Arteta is doing now and I firmly believe that a lot of that is down to what Guardiola was doing and therefore it depends on what the situation is.”

talkSPORT host Jordan joked that Guardiola would run a mile to get away from the Red Devils legend.

“I imagine that if I heard that Wayne Rooney wanted to 'walk' to Manchester City, I would walk to Catalonia to avoid it!” he said of White and Jordan.

“Given that his coaching career literally represents nothing, I think if he had the opportunity to work with the best manager we have in the Premier League, or if I think Jurgen Klopp is close to that, I would be surprised if he said no.” Working with Klopp too, you learn from people who know exactly what they are doing.

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“Instead of traveling to America, achieving a 27 per cent winning record and then bringing that particularly wonderful achievement back to the UK and making it worse.

“His (Rooney's) performance has been equivalent to that of a number two.”

united man The legend Rooney has been on the losing side twice against Guardiola in the Champions League in 2009 and 2011.

He was sacked by Birmingham last month after 15 games in charge after losing nine of 15 games.

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“The way the game went is strange,” Rooney added.

“I saw one of our games, against Liverpool for about 15 years, and the difference between how it was played then and how it is played now is enormous.

“For me, the best coach is Pep (Guardiola), and you look at how he adapts: how they (Manchester City) play now is not the same as four years ago.

“You keep making these subtle changes and then you see everyone else trying to do the same thing.

“It's important to have your own principles and ideas of what you want to do and that's what I tried to do at Derby, DC (United) and at Birmingham, but unfortunately it didn't work.”

Guardiola's City remains two points behind Liverpool in the race for the Premier League title after a narrow 1-0 win over Brentford On tuesday night.