The reason Manchester United have not agreed to a new deal with Wayne Rooney is that they do not want to commit £70million on keeping the player at Old Trafford. Rooney is looking for an improvement on his current £250,000-a-week salary and would want a five-year contract to stay at the club. But although Rooney’s form has dramatically improved this season - after a major dip during the last campaign, explained by a breakdown between the player and former manager Sir Alex Ferguson - the club remain reluctant to make such a massive financial commitment to a man who is now 28 years old. The club’s hand is strengthened by the fact that while it was widely known Rooney wanted away in the summer, only two teams displayed a genuine interest because of the phenomenal financial commitment. But Rooney’s failure to put in a formal transfer request meant that neither Chelsea nor Paris St Germain could push a deal through. And new United manager David Moyes made it clear that he would not sell to Chelsea. That will remain the case during the January transfer window, too. Rooney didn’t want to move to Paris in the summer and now that the French authorities could impose a 75 per cent tax band on earnings of over £1million a year, a move to PSG is a very unlikely option. So United won’t be rushed into offering Rooney a deal of anything like he wants, even if his sell-on fee (of around £20million) drops every month until it expires 20 months from now. -360
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 14:10:24 +0000
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