Manchester United insist Wayne Rooney is not for sale
Despite being left on the bench for Manchester United's Premier League clash with West Brom, this past Saturday, it was insisted that the player and the teams manager, Alex Ferguson were not facing any personal issues and that the team had no intention of
letting go of Wayne Rooney.
According to a spokesman for the club, "To suggest Wayne Rooney will be sold in January is nonsense".
However, United are more than aware of the fact that, a statement such as the one above, can only add fuel to the fact that the player might actually be on the verge of being sold. This is because had the club had no intention of letting go of the player,
then they would have not felt the need to go public about the fact that the player is not going to be sold, unless of course they only did that to cover up for the fact that the player was actually going to be sold later on.
The club has also maintained a very high standard of never going public about how they are going to handle their players, or about the players’ contracts. But the team seems to have let go of those standards as they have publicly on numerous occasions declared
that Rooney is in line for a contract extension that would make him the highest paid player at the club.
Alex Ferguson on the other hand, has very little or nothing to say about the teams star striker. In fact after last Saturday's press conference in which the manager insisted that the story of him and Rooney having some sort of argument was nothing more than
water off a ducks back.
Leading one to question, why is one of the most out spoken managers in the Premier League remaining so contained about something this important? Perhaps there is more to this story than United are making public and perhaps that means Rooney could very well
be on his way out of the club.
Rooney has been a miserable shadow of his former self this season. The player can blame the media for as long as he wants to about his poor form, but at the end of the day he needs to realize that he is in fact a professional football player, who gets paid
for what he does and if he is going to keep making excuses for not playing the game properly, then perhaps he is of no use to the team.
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