Manchester United legend Gary Neville has now named the three players he found toughest to face in training in the past.

Gary Neville amassed 602 appearances for United, winning a remarkable 12 league titles, as well as two Champions League medals.

The saying ‘they don’t make them like that anymore’ is often thrown around, but it truly can be said for the full-back, who retired as a one-club man.

Of course, having played in so many illustrious Sir Alex Ferguson teams during his time at Old Trafford, Gary Neville saw some outrageous players come and go.

The defender played behind both David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo at the different points, happy to do their dirty work on the right.

That being said, when speaking with Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold on The Overlap recently, the pundit did name Ronaldo as one of the best he’s ever faced in training.

Neville managed to whittle his list down to three names, which must have been no easy task given all that is mentioned above.

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Speaking in the interview, Gary Neville claimed that Ryan Giggs, Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney were the toughest that he trained against.

Asked whether he enjoyed coming up against a teammate, Neville said: “I played against Cristiano Ronaldo a couple of times where he came over to my side, it was tough. 

“I don’t think he enjoyed it either though. At the time, he was quite young, and I was experienced.

“I wasn’t fazed by him because I’d played against him every day. I always say this, the best players I played against were in training – Giggs, Ronaldo, and Rooney.”

Of course, it would be interesting to hear a defender lift the lid on Manchester United training today.

Given things aren’t currently going so well on the pitch under Erik ten Hag, it would be interesting to hear if any surprise names were mentioned.

Alejandro Garnacho has often been hailed by his teammates behind the scenes, it wasn’t so long ago that Jonny Evans was singing his praises.

The club and culture that Neville harps back to has now changed, but there’s no reason to think United can’t soon enter such an illustrious era again if Sir Jim Ratcliffe can get things right.