Finally. One of the most talented England players, Wayne Rooney, will have his career (and private life) analyzed in detail in a new Amazon documentary, which is released on Friday and is simply named „Rooney“. His career, private life, battle with alcohol which almost ended his marriage, everything will be displayed in the movie. And one of the topics which was not so much highlighted before, with even Rooney being quite about it is his attempt to exit Manchester in 2010.Wayne Rooney has bravely opened up about his mental health struggles growing up in the public eye pic.twitter.com/RYAgBpJfjC— ESPN India (@ESPNIndia) February 10, 2022 But current Derby County coach has finally talked about it in this documentary and even claimed that his boss, sir Alex Ferguson also wanted to get out as soon as he saw that the club was in decline. Eventually, the Scotsman left the club before Rooney, in 2013, while Wayne went back to his boyhood club Everton in 2017.„They were offering me a contract of £200,000 a week, so it would have been quite easy for me to say, “five years, £200,000 a week… let me sign it now”,’. It would have been quite easy for me to do that. But I wanted success on the pitch – that means more to me. Actually, if you look five years down the line from that meeting – Alex Ferguson knew where the club was going and he got out of there as quick as he could, and they’re still picking up the pieces now“ explained Rooney in the documentary. ‘Hairdryer’: The most famous treatment sir Alex gave to his playersAnd the former Manchester striker, also revealed his meeting with sir Alex Ferguson, when he asked his manager what is the plan for the club after they sold their star players. „We sold Carlos Tevez, then we sold Cristiano Ronaldo, I was the one player left who was high profile. I went into Alex Ferguson’s office, and I said to him: “What’s the plan here? At the minute, we’ve brought in two young English players who are unproven.” I remember Alex Ferguson’s response was, “Get out of my office”.’Even world-class footballers have “normal people” problemsSpeaking for the new documentary, his former teammate Garry Neville also explained that famous situation with Ferguson, stating that only a handful of players, Rooney included, could do something like that to Ferguson. „As I sit here now, I think, “that takes real guts and courage to do what he did”,’. None of us would have done it, not in a million years would I have gone into the manager and gone, “by the way, who you signing? You better sign some good players or else I’m off!” (laughs). We’d have been turfed out that door quicker than we’d have finished our sentence. We just wouldn’t have done that. But you look at the likes of Bryan Robson and Eric Cantona, Roy Keane and Rooney… these were the personalities and characters that could do it, because they were that great of a player, and they had that edge to them. That’s what makes them stand out“ said Neville. It has come to this: ‘Everybody would be happy if we finish fourth’Former Manchester’s defender also criticized Rooney for the way he left the club. „The one big disappointment I had with Wayne was when he announced it publicly, just as we were walking into the changing rooms, his team-mates were playing a game. Don’t do that to us. Take your s*** somewhere else. It’s on Sky Sports News, beamed into us. It literally hit us like a ton of bricks, because this wasn’t him. This is not him. He would never damage his team-mates, he was a team player. That was the only time I thought he’d let himself down“ explained Neville.
