Wayne Rooney revealed he threatened to directly speak with Sir Alex Ferguson after being played out of position by Manchester United.
The club and England all-time record scorer enjoyed most of his football playing as a number 10 or a second striker, though he did occasionally play as a number nine.
Rooney enjoyed his best two goal-scoring seasons for United between 2009 and 2011, where he played up front on his own, though the club surrendered the title in 09/10 to Chelsea.
Despite scoring 31 goals in the Premier League and Champions League, Rooney was left frustrated with his new position and told teammate Rio Ferdinand he was planning talks with Ferguson.
"I think those two seasons were when I played as a number nine on my own," Rooney told BT Sport.
"I played there on and off in different games but I played there for those two seasons every game. I actually didn't enjoy the game as much."
Ferdinand interjected: "I remember when we came back for pre-season and you said 'I'm going to speak to the manager about playing as a number 10. I sat there thinking 'you scored 30 odd goals this season Wazza', you said 'I'm not enjoying my football', I couldn't get my head around it."
"I've always been a player that wants to be involved in the game," Rooney replied.
"It took seven or eight years to learn to play there, with my back to goal, it's the hardest position to play. You've got big centre-backs coming through the back of you, you're on your own.
"To play there, the biggest things I had to learn was patience and to play from two-touch. Play the ball out wide, get in the box. I wasn't really enjoying it but I was having my best two years of scoring.
"I remember coming off the pitch, scoring two goals, and thinking 'I didn't play that well today, didn't really have many touches of the ball'."
