PSG’s pursuit of Wayne Rooney mounts with promise to match wages

By on May 22, 2013

Paris Saint-Germain’s pursuit of Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney continues as the French club again attempt to lure the unsettled English international away from United with a promise to match Rooney’s current salary. Rooney’s wages currently amount to about £300,000-a-week, a massive price that most clubs would be unwilling to pay, but PSG have informed Rooney’s representatives that they would be willing to match the wage bill United pay.

Rooney’s United career has been under major doubt since the 27-year-old started on the bench in United’s 2-1 loss to Real Madrid on March 5 in a hugely important Champions League fixture, although PSG made contact with United over a possible transfer as far back as February. Rooney’s future at Old Trafford has been cast even more doubtful in recently after manager Sir Alex Ferguson suggested that the Englishman had made a formal transfer request immediately after his final game in charge of the Red Devils.

Although the forward, who has recently been moved back to midfielder, apparently denies making any transfer request, he has lost the backing of Ferguson, who didn’t even name Rooney among the substitute’s bench during his last match as manager before retiring from football last Sunday.

United’s incoming manager David Moyes may be Rooney’s only way back at United, and the former Everton manager is understood to want to keep Rooney at the club. The pair were together at Everton before Rooney moved to United back in 2004, and Rooney might want to stay at United to be under the reign of Moyes.

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