Makes sense - Everton buy him from us for very little money so he can play with the aim of keeping his England place that summer, and once that's done then Everton can sell him for huge money to China where he can make-up the wages he's lost out on during this season back at Everton. Everyone's happy.
There's no way we'd let Everton be the ones to cash in!
It is an intriguing situation though.
Say the £250k a week figure is correct, that's a mad £26million over the last 2 years of his contract with us.
It's massively doubtful whether Everton would get close to even £100k a week (£5.2m a season, £10.4m over the same 2 year period)
Do we really think Rooney is going to sacrifice the missing £15.6m?
No chance, he'd probably expect us to fund at least £12m of it!
So, pay the best part of a year's wage to let him go, or have him around for another year? I'd probably take the latter.