Because there's plenty of other clubs he could have gone to where he could have earned a lot more money. He said he 'only' cares about wages. Obviously not true.
This is true. Completely missing out the fact nothing can compare to the Salford brass.
Because there's plenty of other clubs he could have gone to where he could have earned a lot more money. He said he 'only' cares about wages. Obviously not true.
Because there's plenty of other clubs he could have gone to where he could have earned a lot more money.
Is there?
No other prem player earns what he does, no country outside europe pays what he's on, no player in spain or germany or france or Italy is on what he's on.
Etoo in russia is the only player in the world on higher wages. (Ibrahimovic is technically but not really because of the tax rates.)
So given no other player in the world (Gotze, Schweinsteiger, Ronaldo, Messi, Iniesta, Toure, Bale, Mata etc) is being paid his wages by another club, who do you think would pay that to Rooney?
So we've gone from "plenty of other clubs" to just anzhi have we?
I only need one club to prove that he doesn't just care about wages.
Maybe quality of life comes into it, and other non footballing issues? Still doesn't change the fact he was after the best deal for him personally.
Like everybody ever....

He still supports Everton. He's not shy about saying it or dressing his kids in replikits either. Surely if he only cared about money he'd keep his mouth shut and keep his kids in red shirts so as not to upset the people giving him millions of pounds.I'm sure he loves being fabulously wealthy as we all would but I still think it'd mean more to him to win one FA cup with us now then it would to win the title at Man Utd for the next two seasons. I think he'd happily be slightly less fabulously wealthy to do so too!
But of course only one person knows for sure.
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