In transfer soup!

Manchester United have rejected a bid from English Premier League rivals Chelsea for Wayne Rooney, British media reported on Wednesday. The Daily Mail, the domestic Press Association news agency and Sky Sports News television said that the league champions had turned down an offer from the west London club, without quoting sources.

Television pictures on Sky Sports News showed Rooney arriving at the club’s training ground in northwest England. The channel added that United ‘immediately rejected’ Chelsea’s offer. Reports said the Blues offered £10 million (11.5 million euros, $15.1 million) plus either Juan Mata or David Luiz in exchange.

Chelsea have confirmed making a bid for the 27-year-old but denied they would be willing to include either Juan Mata or David Luiz as a make-weight.  Nothing has ever been quite the same in Wayne Rooney’s world since the day in October 2010 when Alex Ferguson told stunned reporters that Manchester United’s star player had asked for a transfer.

That little rift was quickly patched up with a bumper pay rise, but almost three years later, according to widespread but unsourced reports in the British media the England striker is now on his way out of Old Trafford. The Sun newspaper deemed it of such great national importance on Wednesday that it was the main story on its front page with banner headlines screaming: ‘Rooney: Why I Want Out of Man Utd.’
Every paper carried a quote from unnamed ‘sources’ that the pugnacious frontman was ‘confused and angry’ about comments made by new United manager David Moyes about Rooney’s future role at the club.

Rooney has two years left of his contract that affords him a reported basic salary of 250,000 pounds ($378,100) a week, and while United are touring the Far East and Australia he is back in England having treatment for a hamstring injury and could miss the start of the new season.

Rooney fumes over comments

LONDON: Wayne Rooney is apparently fuming with his Manchester United bosses over comments suggesting he would be back-up to Robin van Persie this season, according to reports. Television station Sky Sports on Tuesday quoted a source claiming Rooney was ‘angry and confused’ by quotes attributed to his Moyes.