Never mind the Spending Review, what about Rooney?

George Osborne's speech has made it perfectly clear why Wayne Rooney wants to leave Man United.

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George Osborne's speech has made it perfectly clear why Wayne Rooney wants to leave Man United.

Rooney obviously had an inside whisper that the pension age was going to be raised to 66 by 2020. By then Young Wayne will be old Wayne - in footballing terms - 32 years old and his best earning years behind him. That is surely why he is pushing for a move now so he can increase his earning capacity from his current basic of about £3million a year to about £10 million. Maybe more important to Rooney wasn't the result of the Spending Review by the High Court decision that a pre-nuptial agreement is binding. The court found in favour of German paper-heiress in the case of a German pa...

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