Angry Man Utd Fans Besiege Rooney's House

City, owned by Abu Dhabi billionaire Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, would comfortably be able to pay both the 50-million-pound transfer fee and Rooney’s salary demands, expected to be more than 200,000 pounds (316,000 dollars) per week. Ferguson warned Rooney that any move to a new club was unlikely to be an improvement on United, where he has already accumulated eight major trophies in the six years since he signed from Everton as a teenager in 2004.

“Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it’s a better cow than the one you’ve got in your own field,” Ferguson remarked.

“And it never really works out that way.”

While the football world waits to discover Rooney’s fate, his team-mates are trying to block out the controversy as they focus on Sunday’s Premier League trip to Stoke. United are already five points behind leaders Chelsea.