Man Utd star 'didn't speak to Ryan Giggs for six months' after bust-up

Wayne Rooney has revealed one of his former Manchester United team-mates was "a nightmare" and didn't speak to Ryan Giggs for six months after an argument.

Rooney shared an Old Trafford dressing room with some of the greats of the game and was managed by one of best managers of all time in Sir Alex Ferguson.

As such England legend Rooney won numerous trophies with the Red Devils - 16 in total - scored 253 goals in 559 appearances over a 13-year stint.

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But as ever in elite sport, not all squads are harmonious, with the Everton product explaining of Ferguson's squad was a difficult character to get on with at times.

"[Nemanja] Vidic was a nightmare," Rooney said, speaking on The Overlap podcast.

"He’d have an argument with someone, I remember he didn’t speak to Giggsy [Giggs] for six months, didn’t speak to Patrice [Evra] for months, he’d have an argument and just wouldn’t speak to them.

"I had an argument with him once and I remember that he was going down the same route with me, so I pulled him for a chat and said, 'Grow up, what’s up with you? We’re team-mates'."

Serbian Vidic spent eight years with United and in widely considered one of the Premier League's best defenders.

Roy Keane, also appearing on the same podcast, said bust-ups of that kind were commonplace in professional football, with the Republic of Ireland international once stepping in to stop Teddy Sheringham and Andy Cole coming to blows.

He added: "What’s really important about all of this stuff, the player arguments, hang-ups with Teddy [Sheringham], whatever it is, the key was that even with all of this arguing, it never interfered with our targets as a team.

"That was trying to win the following weekend and the next game."