Within the newest episode of The Wayne Rooney Present, the previous and England captain solutions a collection of questions despatched into the podcast.
Newcastle and Manchester United have been each eager to signal Rooney from after the then-teenager had starred for England at Euro 2004. He finally moved to Outdated Trafford.
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Requested whether or not there was any likelihood he may have joined the Magpies, Rooney stated: “Sure, I might have definitely went [to Newcastle].
“Manchester United needed to attend a season after which signal me the 12 months after they did signal me. Newcastle put a bid in and if Manchester United hadn’t are available, I might have gone to Newcastle.
“These two have been bidding in opposition to one another. My agent’s finest mate was chairman at Newcastle on the time! So I am certain he was getting nudged to attempt to get me as effectively.
“I needed to go to Manchester United, however I spoke with [then Newcastle manager] Sir Bobby Robson and Alan Shearer.
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“In true Bobby Robson fashion, on the cellphone he referred to as me ‘Mark’. I assumed he had both forgotten my title or he was a genius – as a result of that is my center title!”
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