Wayne Rooney: World’s Highest Paid Footballer

Wayne Rooney

Wayne Rooney was very tactical with the managers of Manchester United by making dreadful comments and threatening to leave the football club, only to do a U-turn to sign a £60 million five year contract. Wouldn’t you if you had a chance to earn £250,000 per week like him? After all, money does not grow on trees.

LORD Sugar has branded Wayne Rooney an "ungrateful s***" for wanting to leave.
The former Tottenham chairman, 63, also praised Sir Alex Ferguson's comments and urged the United boss not to play the want-away striker until his contract runs out.
He Tweeted: "If it was me I would not let Rooney play again for Man U. Stick him rotting in the reserves."
The Apprentice chief speculated that Rooney's agent was telling him to run down his contract and leave on a free transfer to get higher wages.
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Some Manchester United supporters felt that Rooney was ‘greedy’ but that was not the motive behind the rant Rooney had with the Man United manager Sir Alex Ferguson. Rooney probably felt that he was ‘victimized’ by the way he was treated by the club. He was allegedly ‘demoted’ to the bench and not allowed to play, after the media exposé of him having sex with prostitutes, including a threesome, while his wife (Coleen) was pregnant. The media had a field day and Rooney probably had a headache.

Of course it was not good for his image but other famous footballers like David Beckham, Ashley Cole and John Terry have been exposed the same way. Nevertheless, Coleen did not dump Rooney but took him back after a few days of sadness and apologies. The news of him deciding to stay at Man United made a lot of people wonder what the rant was about in the first place.

Ferguson’s statement made it look as if Rooney could never have made it without Man United. Real Madrid boss, Jose Mourinho thought that Rooney would remain at Man United although he said Rooney should give him if a call if he was leaving. The call may have to wait forever because Rooney is back at Man United and never left in the first place. 24 year old Rooney will clock 25 tomorrow and he is the highest paid footballer in the world.

This is what David Beckham had to say on Rooney’s decision to remain with the club, “I'm not surprised he stayed at Manchester United because at the end of the day they are the biggest team in the world”. Was Rooney lucky or tactical? According to Attacking Soccer, ten footballers that had problems with Ferguson were booted to other clubs e.g. David Beckham, Roy Keane, Peter Schmeichel and Ruud Van Nistelrooy etc.[/ALIGN]

Wayne Rooney in action

THE ten highest paid footballers in the world are:

1. Wayne Rooney, 24, Man United, £250,000 a week
2. Cristiano Ronaldo, 25, Real Madrid, £217,308.
3. Zlatan Ibrahimovic, 29, Barcelona, £200,000.
4. Yaya Toure, 27, Manchester City, £185,000 5. Lionel Messi, 23, Barcelona, £175,000.
5. Samuel Eto'o, 29, Inter Milan, £175,000.
7. Kaka, 28, Real Madrid, £167,307.
8. Emmanuel Adebayor, 26, Man City, £142,307.
8. Karim Benzema, 22, Real Madrid, £142,307.
10. Carlos Tevez, 26, Man City, £134,615.
List: culled from The Sun

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