Sheffield United midfielder Ravel Morrison admits it's tough hearing what Manchester United's senior players thought him as a youngster.

Derby County player-coach and former United captain Wayne Rooney highlighted Morrison's potential yesterday.

Rooney said in his Sunday Times column: "I saw Paul Pogba come through, Jesse Lingard, all these players and Ravel was better than any of them by a country mile."

Morrison told talkSPORT: "Obviously amazing comments. Especially for the player that he is, he's probably one of the best to come out of England, so it's high comments from a high player.

"It makes you a bit upset that I could have gone a bit further. I should have gone a bit further. I'm hoping still to go a bit further. But to the likes of Pogba and Jesse; I think both great players. I think we had a great team, [born] around the 92s and 93s, that era of our year.

"I knew I had ability, but I didn't realise and understand... obviously these are high players and I didn't understand their thoughts at the time. I used to just go there and love playing football."

He added: "I wouldn't say I struggled with pressure because I didn't really feel pressure. Maybe some things in my life, when I was young, now I would sit there and not do things or go a different path and stuff like that.

"Going into Manchester United was a nice environment to go into every day, world-class players, just enjoyable. If I could go back through my life again there would be a lot of things I'd change.

"I grew up at United, I was there from the Under-9s. I'd skip training some days, and I would wake up and don't know why I'd done it, but I'd skip it. And it's hard to get me off the training field now."