Manchester United captain and star striker Wayne Rooney has publicly denied handing in a transfer request back in 2013.
The player, opening about how the events of his reported transfer request came to being, revealed in a BBC documentary on him becoming the Three Lions all-time record scorer that he never wanted out of the club.
Despite enjoying success at Old Trafford from day one upon his arrival back in 2004, the 29-year-old had clashed several times with manager Sir Alex Ferguson, and even handed in a transfer request in 2010.
The matter was settled and the Englishman signed a new contract with the Red Devils. Three years later, however, the player found himself in and out of the starting eleven, and thus asked for another transfer, as stated by Ferguson after his retirement.
Rooney, however, has now cleared the air, claiming he never asked for a transfer and that the issue was falsely reported by the press.
"I went in to see him (Ferguson) and just said ‘if you are not going to play me then it might be better for me to move on’,” Rooney confessed.
"Then, all of a sudden, it was all over the press that I had put a transfer request in which I never did. I don’t know what happened, why that came out that way.”
Despite enduring rough patches in his relationship with former Man United boss Sir Alex Ferguson, Rooney praised the English Premier League’s most successful manager in history in his new documentary, hailing the legendary Scottish boss as the sole reason why he opted for a Theatre of Dreams move.
"He was the reason why I wanted to join Man United, to work with him.”
"In my eyes he's the best manager of all-time. For him to be interested in me and wanting me to play under him, there was nowhere else I was going to go.”
