Manchester United Football Club confirmed yesterday that striker Wayne Rooney had signed a new five-and-a-half-year deal at the club, ending all speculation regarding his future.
The Englishman was linked with a move away from Old Trafford last Summer with both Chelsea and Real Madrid interested, but the 28-year-old decided to end all rumours by penning a new deal worth around £300k-a-week.
After making the announcement, Rooney had this to say to the official Manchester United website.
“I’m happy everything is now finalised and I can carry on concentrating on my football.”
Rooney is close to breaking Bobby Charlton’s all-time goalscoring record, and he has admitted that that was one of the reasons behind his decision to stay at the club.
“This is definitely something I would like to achieve. If I managed to do it it’d be something I’d be very proud of. My aim is always to score and create as many goals as possible, so if I can continue to score regularly and break the record then I would be delighted.”
As for David Moyes, he is delighted to have captured the future of ‘outstanding’ Wayne Rooney.
“I said last July that Wayne has an outstanding chance to be a true legend of this club’s long and rich history. He is just 42 goals away from overtaking Sir Bobby as our record goalscorer and becoming the first United player to hit 250 goals for the club.
“These opportunities only come to special players and I’m confident Wayne will set a new record that will take decades to reach.”
“We always felt Wayne wanted to stay. He’s a great player and hopefully we can keep him at a really high level which he has showed this season.
“We’re all delighted. It’s part of the rebuilding and part of it is also to make sure you keep the players you really want to keep.
“Everybody would want him, you could see the clubs who did want him but there was never a chance he was going to leave Manchester United, certainly not on my watch.”
Written by Alex Batt – @AlexBatt – @AlexsArticles
