Is Wayne Rooney worth £50 million?

By Ellee, on October 22nd, 2010

Wayne Rooney brilliantly played Alex Ferguson and Manchester United with his sure footed manoeuvres to score his best victory yet - reportedly doubling his £90,000 a week salary following lame threats to join Manchester City. This has been calculated to equate to £936 per hour!!!

Rooney’s walk-out threats led to extraordinary scenes outside his home last night by militant United fans who carried a banner that read, “Join City ad you will die“. Come on guys, it’s just a game!!!

I believe the City threat was a tactic to force Ferguson’s hand – and it succeeded. After Rooney indicated he did not want to renew his deal, it led to frenzied media speculation and it seemed there was no way he was going to stay with Man United. But today we learn it was all a ploy and Rooney has become spectacularly rich by signing a new five-year contract worth £50 million. What a great birthday present for Rooney, who turns 25 on Sunday.

Do you think Rooney is worth £50 million? No way. I know we have a free market, but surely there should be a cap on what a footballer is worth. He is a moaner and a whinger with a hugely inflated ego and it makes me cringe to think he is valued that highly, especially during our present economic downturn when virtually every other industry is scrimping to survive. He always looks miserable and this picture is the first time I have seen him smile for a long time – and there are 50 million good reasons for that!

Can you remember his poor performance in this year’s World Cup? What a debacle that was, especially when he sarcastically questioned the loyalty of fans who travelled thousands of miles to support England after a pitiless goalless draw against Algeria and was booed as he left the pitch.

He told a tv crew: “Nice to see your own fans booing you. If that’s what loyal support is, for …. sake.”

He’s one to talk about loyalty after publicly denying that he was not suffering from an ankle problem – completely contradicting the words of his manager – following England’s draw against Montenegro 10 days ago. Rooney is still unable to play, yet I guess he still collects his big salary each week, regardless of whether he is fit to play or not.

If only Sir Alex had been brave enough to have given him the boot…..

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11 comments to Is Wayne Rooney worth £50 million?

• Winchester whisperer

  October 25, 2010 at 2:34 pm · Reply

  No

• disaffected

  October 25, 2010 at 10:37 am · Reply

  Steve, The Labour Gov did more in its years in government to destroy society big or small.
  It erroded and treated with distain all the old values.
  It looked down it long nose at marriage, two parent families , looking after ones own, respect for ones elders and authority ( look at school discipline ! ) Christian religion ( Alistair Campbell ” we dont do religion “) the list goes on and on .
  Instead it gave us the State where ” diversity ” reigned and no one had to be ” offended ” .
  Its machinery to do this included regarding most of the working class as victims and encouraging themselves to think they were.The phrase ” cradle to grave ” took on a whole new meaning .
  The State can take care of all your personal responsibilities and we will set up an enormous ( non productive )army of beaurocrats to keep it oiled .
  Of course all these ” users ” will need to keep on voting Labour to maintain this machine ( those nasty Tories and LDs will cut it down to size ! )
  Well thank goodness sense as at last been at least partially seen and we will now have to get back to realising that it is in fact private business that makes the money to allow us to have a care system at all.
  In America the reality of Obama and his socialist agenda have been seen only two years down the line , watch out for the Tea Party people.

• Steve Wilson

  October 24, 2010 at 12:04 pm · Reply

  Ha ha The Big Society

  Don’t make me laugh

  The Conservatives spent years destroying the big society, creating a nation of selfish greedy individuals in the process and now you think you can recreate all that with a slogan?

  All those jobs that you think will be filled by well meaning citizens will end up being done by someone for the market price or by no one at all. Your glorious free market.

• Ellee

  October 23, 2010 at 9:37 am · Reply

  The Times’ Thunderer like me believes that Rooney’s salary is big enough already and he should focus on scoring goals and behaving with dignity. On a professional level he will be delighted with this deal, but on a personal level, what are his relationships like with his family and fellow players? Does he do any charity work and give something back to society – the Big Society ethos – or is it all purely self-gratification, in many senses of the word? How high can he really hold his head?

• Tom Paine

  October 22, 2010 at 7:36 pm · Reply

  “…surely there should be a cap…”

  There is. It’s set by the market and it seems very high (I agree). But if the market decided that you or I were worth that much, we would take it. Anyone for whom that’s true is an hypocrite when they criticise Rooney. Good luck to him. His career is short and his spending habits foolish. All the money will find its way back into more sensible hands. I would not be surprised if he ends up penniless again one day. Unless intercepted by government to bribe the foolish for their votes, money tends to gravitate to the prudent. I doubt Rooney is even prudent enough to know that he’s imprudent.

• Maalie

  October 22, 2010 at 7:36 pm · Reply

  Ellee, payment by goals scvored might be as bit unfair on the defenders

  I suppose a player is worth what the market is prepared to pay.

• Steve wilson

  October 22, 2010 at 6:53 pm · Reply

  Just another sign of the bankruptcy of what is left of our ‘society’.

  You can’t dogmatically push individualism and greed for so many years and then whinge when it produces a nation of greedy, selfish people.

• Disaffected

  October 22, 2010 at 6:30 pm · Reply

  The word repulsive in every way fits both the player and the price .
  Someone should ask him how much he and the constant shopper Coleen give to charity !

• anne

  October 22, 2010 at 6:27 pm · Reply

  NO WAY… and if he didn’t want to sign then they should of just let him go. And as it being in the news for such a length of time, when we have far more serious things going on. I personally don’t like football, nor watch it.. I can think of nothing more boring to watch then men running up and down kicking a ball… oh yes I can sorry Cricket .. but they do not get paid anywhere near this.

• Ellee

  October 22, 2010 at 5:39 pm · Reply

  Maalie, perhaps as a striker he should be paid on performance – so much per goal. I remember some competitive parents used to give their kids £1 for each goal they scored at junior level matches in the hope of encouraging them play better (I was against this). I guess Rooney would want a lot more!

• Maalie

  October 22, 2010 at 5:26 pm · Reply

  Well, he didn’t score a goal in the World Cup and I don’t think he has scored one for his club this season, so would say that he has passed his sell-by date!

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