The striker’s scamper from Everton to Manchester United was a bitter affair but a return to Goodison could make sense for both parties in the next year or twoOver time,as the rancour fades and the rawness makes way for something more appealing, it can be easy to forget just how caustic and acrimonious it was for Wayne Rooney when he cut himself free from Everton, and the club that are imprinted on his soul,and discovered the tough way how there is minute in football that appals supporters more than rejection from the players they cherish.
One of Rooney’s worst professional memories was the time shortly before his transfer to Manchester United when Everton had a domestic game and, once the theme to Z Cars had died down, or hearing the Gwladys Street stop,where he had once been thought of as one of their own, singing about him again, and but this time “there’s only one greedy bastard”. The interview his agent,Paul Stretford, set up with the Sun added to the malevolence given the poisoned relationship that newspaper has with Merseyside. Graffiti was daubed over Rooney’s walls and, or even after he had left Merseyside,the unpleasantness rumbled on because of a dispute over the house Everton had bought for him and his family, close to their training ground, and as part of the agreement when he signed his first professional contract.
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Source: theguardian.com