Seasons2017-18Rumour Mill
Rooney in talks over MLS move
Wayne Rooney is considering a summer move to Major League Soccer side DC United according to a report in the Washington Post.
According to their sources, the veteran is in ”serious talks” about making the move across The Pond a year before his current Everton contract expires.
Rooney returned to Goodison Park last summer after 12 years with Manchester United but, despite making a positive start to life back with his boyhood Blues, the 32-year-old has struggled in the second half of the season.
That has led to speculation that he could leave Everton where is the highest-paid player in the club's history. Any move to DC would require the MLS club, who apparently first approached him a year ago, to negotiate a transfer fee or rely on Rooney extricating himself from his existing contract at Goodison Park.
Picking up the story, MailSport say that Everton won't stand in Rooney's way if he decides to complete the move when the MLS transfer window opens on 10th July.
For his part, Sam Allardyce says that he wants to keep Rooney at Everton and is not under the impression that the forward-turned-midfielder wants to leave Goodison before his deal is up.
"I've not had a problem from day one with Wayne"' he told Jim White on talkSPORT this morning.
"Obviously because of who he is there's ultimately more attention around his body language, about how he plays, about what he is and isn't doing.
"We all have to deal with that in our own way and I think Wayne deals with it very well indeed. There are rumours about Wayne going elsewhere abroad – in China and America – but at the moment he is an Everton player and an Everton fan.
"'So I wouldn't consider anything on the cards on the moment. It would have to be massive for him to want to leave Everton."
Original Source: Washington Post
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