Bold Wayne Rooney move will pay for itself as Derby County bring legend back to England
Wayne Rooney is to join the Rams in January in a player/coach capacity and, for me, this is quite an astounding coup for the club.
When I first heard about it, I thought it was some kind of wind up.
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Hide AdRooney flew into the country on Tuesday morning and was confirmed by the club yesterday.
Now many of the keyboard financial in the know ‘experts’ are claiming that this will finally tip us into exceeding Profitability and Sustainability rules and we will be heading for severe sanctions by the EFL in the not too distant future.
Many claim this without doing any actual homework or without any structured thought before coming to their conclusions.
First of all, many big wage earners are off the books.
Bradley Johnson, Jacob Butterfield, David Nugent, Nick Blackman etc will have been on quite generous terms and, although I’m not privy to their exact earnings, that will make a serious contribution to the £80,000-£100,000 a week wages some are claiming our new signing will be banking.
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Hide AdAlso there must be a reason for him taking the number 32 shirt!
Our club sponsors 32 Red are reportedly paying a handsome sum to have their logo on our playing kits.