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# Wayne Rooney asks to leave Manchester United: Sir Alex Ferguson's full
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## Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson used two interviews today to
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reveal that Wayne Rooney has abandoned contract negotiations. Here's his full
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[Link to this video][1]
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By Telegraph staff and agencies 4:42PM BST 19 Oct 2010
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[Comments][2]
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**Ferguson on ... Rooney's desire to leave **
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"The player is adamant, he wants to leave. We have to deal with the next part
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of that as best we can. I can do no more than what we've said and done at the
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moment. We had a discussion and I said the only thing I want from you Wayne is
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to honour and respect the club's position and its traditions and behave as a
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proper professional. We cannot quite understand why he would want to leave.
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"No one can deny this club is one of the most successful in British football.
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We had won 40 major trophies, countless cup finals, a fantastic history, great
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stadium, great training arrangements. The platform for anyone to take up a
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challenge is here, without a doubt. We don't understand it. I can't answer any
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questions about why he is doing it. We can speculate. We can have opinions. It
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won't matter a dicky-bird, simply because the player is adamant he wants to
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leave. I can do no more than I have said at the moment because we still, to my
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mind, have the door open."
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**Rooney's injury, and his selection for England**
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"Yes, he was injured. We sent him for a scan and while he was able to train,
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he was still carrying traces of his injury. Why he was saying he wasn't
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injured, you can only guess yourself. It's disappointing. When it came to the
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Sunderland game, I felt I would leave him out and give him a complete break so
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he could be fit for England.
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"I thought if he went and played for England, at Wembley, we would get his
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form back**.** That was my intention, that was my idea, to galvanise him. Take
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a break from the games, get the training done, get his fitness back. Get rid
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of the traces of the ankle injury away and play for England. So why he's come
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out and said that, I've no idea.
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"His entry into the mixed zone at Wembley has created that next stage that we
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have had to deal with, _i.e._ that he wasn't injured. I was disappointed
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because we know he was carrying an injury. We sent him for a scan, which
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showed a minor defect with an ankle injury, nothing serious, but he needed
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treatment, which he has had. There is no argument with that."
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## Related Articles
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* [Wayne Rooney 'determined to leave United'][3]
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19 Oct 2010
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* [Ferguson vs Rooney][4]
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19 Oct 2010
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* [Crossing the divide][5]
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08 Feb 2011
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* [Falling foul of Ferguson][6]
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19 Oct 2010
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**His relationship with Rooney**
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"We've never had any argument, not a bit. I think you have to understand the
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mechanics of these situations when people want to leave the club. It's an easy
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one to say he's fallen out with the manager, a very easy one to say. I think
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there are traces of that too."
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**Rooney's contract negotiations**
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"David Gill [United's chairman] in the early part of the summer, had opened
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talks with his agent. And that was to be continued after the World Cup. I was
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in the office on August 14 when David told me he'd had a call from his agent
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saying that Wayne wasn't going to sign his contract. So then David came across
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to see me. He said he couldn't believe it and neither could I. I was
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dumbfounded, I couldn't understand it at all because only months before he'd
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said he was at the biggest club in the world and he wanted to stay for life.
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We just don't know what's changed the boy's mind. David was shocked, I was
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shocked.
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"I had a meeting with the boy and he reiterated what his agent had said. He
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wanted to go. I said to him, 'Just remember one thing: respect this club.' I
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don't want any nonsense from you, respect your club. What we're seeing now in
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the media is disappointing because we've done everything we can for Wayne
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Rooney, since the minute he's come to the club. We've always been there as a
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harbour for him.
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"Any time he's been in trouble, the advice we've given him - I've even been
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prepared to give him financial advice, many times. But you do that for your
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players, not just Wayne Rooney. That's Manchester United. This is a club which
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bases all its history and its tradition on the loyalty and trust between
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managers and players and the club. That goes back to the days of Sir Matt.
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That's what it's founded on. Wayne's been a beneficiary of this help, just as
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Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and all the players have been. That's what we're
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there for.
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"There's been no falling out. That's why we need to clarify the situation now
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for our fans. Because what we saw on Saturday was unacceptable. When we were
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at 2-2 and the fans were chanting for Wayne Rooney, it put pressure on the
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players and it didn't do any good for the team. So we've got to clarify the
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situation and try to do it right. There's no [specific] offer on the table for
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Wayne [at the moment] because they're not** **prepared to listen to an offer.
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But there's always an offer there for Manchester United to negotiate with a
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player.
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**His feelings towards Rooney now**
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"Yes, I'm disappointed, very disappointed, I can't believe it. When you manage
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Manchester United, there is always something you have to deal with. We've had
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to deal with these situations over the years. There is a disappointment a lot
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of the time when you have to deal with modern-day players. It's not as easy as
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it was many, many years ago when you were negotiating a contract because then
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the player had to depend and trust on the manager he worked for. And as a
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manager, you had more contact with the parents then as well.
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"Yesterday I said to Edwin who made that mistake on Saturday, 'Well, how are
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you feeling?' He said the first phone call he'd received was from his father.
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I said, 'Well listen to him, he's the one you should listen to.' But that's
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gone now. We're dealing with agents who live in the pockets of players. We
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live in a different world now and we have to deal with it in a different way.
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It's a pity but it's there and we have to deal with it."
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**His message to Manchester United fans**
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"The message is that they have to trust Manchester United. If you look at the
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history of our club over the last 50 years, at the amount of trophies we've
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won, the honour we've received, the recognition we've got, the respect we've
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got from around the world, the admiration we've had from everywhere.
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"We've produced more players than any other club in the country for England.
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It's a fantastic history and we should always remember that. You have
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setbacks, we have some blips at times. Last year for instance, we could have
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created history by winning the league for the fourth time in a row. It had
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never been done. We lost it by a point.
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"That doesn't tell us this team is falling apart or anything like that. What
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it always represents is the next step forward. How do we challenge? That's
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Manchester United. You can't continually win everything every year. But when
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you have the little blips, we have the structure, we have the management staff
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to deal with that in order to get us back into line again. We have to deal
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with Saturday's disappointment and we have the wherewithal to deal with that."
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**The future**
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"[David Gill] was prepared to offer him a contract that would be difficult to
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match elsewhere. David's prepared to offer the best terms possible for any
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player in the country. We realise and recognise the quality of the player,
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that's why negotiations were started early summer, two years before his
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contract was up, to extend that contract. And also extend at the behest of the
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player itself.
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"He said he wanted to stay for life. We were honouring that request from Wayne
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to stay at the club, at the club he loved. He said the best thing he'd ever
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done was to sign for Manchester United. So David was prepared, with the
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discussions with our owners, to offer Wayne the best contract that anyone
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could have in the country.
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"We have to keep the door open for him, simply because he is such a good
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player. We have done nothing but help him since he came to the club. That is
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another mystery. I don't know how many times we have helped him in terms of
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his private life and other matters. He is not the only one who gets that
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privilege because Manchester United is that type of club. We do that for all
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players, it doesn't matter who it is. It is part of your job here. You look
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after your players. That creates a tremendous loyalty. It has always been a
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good foundation of our club."
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