£300k-a-week deal for Rooney.

                                                               

Rooney to pen mega United contract: Wayne Rooney is ready to sign a new £300,000 deal to stay at Manchester United until 2018 and turn his back on Chelsea, Real Madrid and Arsenal, reports today's Daily Telegraph. With the signing of Juan Mata close to being finalised, United are keen to wrap up a deal for the England striker and end the saga surrounding his future. Talks between the two parties have already taken place and Rooney has been encouraged by the club's willingness to hand him such a lucrative deal and their determination to resist all offers to sell him. 

                                                                                                   

Paper Round's view: That's a whole lot of money to keep one player, but if that is indeed what the club are prepared to pay, it speaks volumes about how desperately David Moyes wants to hang on to him - and gives a clear indication that the manager has a plan in mind to accommodate both Rooney and Mata in the same side. On the flip side, it does seem rather unsavoury that a player who hankered after a move elsewhere so recently - amid concerns over the quality of the United team - will be rewarded so handsomely with said team doing even worse than when he originally wanted out. Yet, that is modern day football. Like it or lump it                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   posted by Emanto Ngaloru  Jan 25, 2014.