The notorious switch request saga revolving round Wayne Rooney maybe wasn’t as simple as many consider.
Manchester United‘s all-time prime scorer has shed new mild on the furore that erupted round Old Trafford when he requested to go away in 2010. And it seems a transfer to rivals Manchester City wasn’t the foregone conclusion many supposed on the time.
Rooney, 38, sat down with Gary Neville, Roy Keane, Jamie Carragher and Jill Scott on Sky Bet‘s Stick to Football podcast to debate some of the dramatic durations of his profession intimately. And the episode resulted in a rift that will have an effect on the remainder of his stick with the Red Devils.
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“It was 2010 [when I asked for a transfer]. It wasn’t Manchester City – it was more I wanted answers,” said Rooney. “There were a few teams asking – there was Real Madrid, Barcelona was asking, City was asking, Chelsea.
“I genuinely wanted to stay [at Manchester United] but there was a clash of me and the manager [Sir Alex Ferguson] as well, and once you try and disagree with him, he doesn’t take it lightly. My relationship with the manager after that moment was never the same.”
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The Everton academy product quickly carried out a U-turn and signed a brand new five-year contract at Old Trafford, the place he ultimately performed till 2017. And it was only some months after the switch request saga that he ended up scoring “the best goal of his career,” a bicycle kick winner within the Manchester derby that went down in Premier League historical past.
Neville, 49, recalled first listening to about Rooney’s request and initially considering “there’s no comeback from that.” And the previous membership captain inspired the Liverpudlian to apologise to the remainder of the squad for the way by which he and agent Paul Stretford went about chasing a transfer away from the membership (and ultimately his new deal).
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“I’d seen it many times previously over the past 10, 15 years,” said Neville. “I thought, ‘How did that turn around from [Rooney] making that statement?’
“Me and ‘Giggsy’ [Ryan Giggs], spoke to [Rooney] the morning after in the gym and said, ‘You have to say sorry to the lads,’ which [he] did. We never thought it would turn around with the manager.”