So people on here just want to continue looking like fools.
Read the Rooney statement again. At what point does he say "I want to leave"? Fact is, he doesn't. He says he wouldn't renew his contact due to the result of a meeting with David Gill regarding the clubs future. None of us know what that meeting was about, was it to do with money? was it to do with Sir Alex? Was it to do with ambition? No one knows. Instead, alot of you choose to make your own stories up.
Watch Rooney's interview. The key part of it was he felt he had no where to go until Sir Alex said the door was open. Does that sound like a player who desperately wants out of the club? No, it doesn't. Those words from Sir Alex have been the key to all of this.
My guess is Rooney and Sir Alex had had a fall out stemming from the revelations about Wayne's private life. Their relationship has deteriorated and Rooney, who looks at Sir Alex as a "father figure", has taken the knock. Add that to on going contract negotiations (which may I add should have been sorted a while ago), poor form, constant media attention, marriage problems, persistent injuries and the presence of Paul Stretford on his shoulder, things have spiraled out of control.
I imagine there are worries around the playing staff about the Glazers. I mean us fans are scared enough. The G&G campaign has been in full flow and every other week the newspapers print how the club is in free fall and things are falling apart. Is Rooney wrong to be concerned about this? No, he isn't. Not one bit. The fans want answers and so do the players. You can't argue with that surely.
A player, who is on record from his own mouth, stating he wants a life contract, he wants to emulate Ryan Giggs and Bobby Charlton, he couldn't play for another club suddenly doesn't change their mind.
Again, we don't know everything there is to know about this fiasco. I think United have questions to answer, as do Rooney and Stretford. One thing I will say, is I won't stand and boo Rooney as who am I, without knowing whats gone on, to do that?
No one knows what is in his new contract when it comes to money, so why do you all persist in listening to the very media sources that told us Rooney would be gone in January? Will some of you not learn? Clearly not.
Yes, this whole thing has been a fiasco and yes I have lost some respect for Wayne Rooney as a result of it, but the situation is far from unattainable in my eyes. There was no transfer request nor was there any holding the club to ransom. Fergie has handled this brilliantly, and if he has decided Wayne should be able to stay and we as a club should move on, who am I, or any of you, to question him.
After all, what do we really know?