Wayne Rooney returns to Everton
After 13 seasons, 559 appearances and 253 goals for Man Utd, he leaves to re-join his boyhood club on a two-year deal.
Everyone looks bloody delighted about it.
📝 | We're delighted to bring @WayneRooney back to #EFC! He signs from @ManUtd, 2 year deal. #WelcomeHomeWayne
— Everton (@Everton) July 9, 2017
👉🏻 https://t.co/mHFaK7eQA9 pic.twitter.com/8N5nYvnezU
United did a Tweet as well...
#FarewellToALegend@WayneRooney is leaving #MUFC to return to Everton: https://t.co/QQrxKB2wo4
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) July 9, 2017
Thank you, Wayne, from all of us. pic.twitter.com/34NErAvscX
And released this statement from chairnan Ed Woodward. "Wayne has been a fantastic servant to United since the moment he signed for us as a prodigiously talented, explosive teenager some 13 seasons ago.
"Who can forget his storybook debut hat trick against Fenerbahce, the spectacular overhead kick against City and the countless match-winning performances in his time here? But after much discussion, the club has decided to accept his request to rejoin his boyhood team.
"He goes having created some of the most magical moments in some of the most successful years in the club's history. Wayne leaves us as our greatest ever goalscorer and having won every major trophy in the game. His record will take decades for anyone to get close to matching and I am extremely grateful for the way he has led from the front since being appointed club captain three years ago.
"On behalf of the whole club and our hundreds of millions of fans around the world, we wish Wayne all the very best for the next phase of his incredible career."
You've got to assume that history will be far kinder to him than the level of criticism he's received in recent years, haven't you? With the records he's broken and the amount of trophies he's won there's no way we're looking back on his career in 20 years time and not recognising him as a legend of the game.
Let's end with that debut hat-trick versus Fenerbache back in 2004. Fairytale stuff.
