‘I could feel that change’… Wayne Rooney has just made fresh claim about Everton fans
Everton’s relationship with Wayne Rooney is an odd one, given he is still widely admired despite spending the bulk of his career elsewhere.
However, the manner in which he broke through as a teenager, in a way few had ever seen before, told the entire world that he was destined for greatness.
Sir Alex Ferguson clearly saw that too, with his willingness to offload £30m to bring him to Old Trafford startling. What a piece of business that turned out to be.
He would spend the next 13 years in Manchester, winning it all, before making a triumphant return to the club where he first made his name in the sport.
But he remained wary that his relationship with the fans might not have been fixed in time to facilitate that move…
What Wayne Rooney said about Everton
Joining in the midst of Ronald Koeman’s poisonous tenure in 2017, the legendary forward was arguably part of a huge problem which considerably hampered the club’s development despite having just earned a seventh-placed finish.
After all, his arrival came in the same summer as they broke their transfer record to acquire Gylfi Sigurdsson, as well as bringing in Dutchman Davy Klaassen.
Of these three, few would really set the world alight, especially at first when they fought for the same spaces on the pitch when played together.
Regardless, Rooney did enjoy a relatively positive return spell before opting for America, and has since told the Stick to Football podcast about whether his comeback was something he always had planned.
He claimed: ‘Everton was a club who I have loved, I went through the academy there and supported them and followed them, it wasn’t something I was thinking about when I first signed for United and got abuse from the fans but slowly that was turning
