Rooney and Moyes fell out before the striker left Everton
Wayne Rooney has revealed he fell out with Everton manager David
Moyes before he left the Toffees to join Manchester United in a deal
worth £27m in 2004.
The 20-year-old England striker said the row meant he considered an
offer from Newcastle before moving to United.

"I would have gone almost anywhere just to get away from David
Moyes," Rooney said in his autobiography, which is being serialised
in the Daily Mail.

"To me, he appeared overbearing; just wanting to control people."

He added: "I suppose being young and confident and playing for
England at 17, I wasn't bothered about upsetting him or answering
back."

Rooney claims he had already decided to leave Goodison Park when he
had a training ground confrontation with Moyes and told him: "I don't
want to play for you ever again."

The striker became the youngest Premiership goalscorer when he scored
a blistering last-minute strike to secure a 2-1 win against Arsenal
in October 2002, five days before his 17th birthday.

He went on to score 17 goals in 77 appearances for the Toffees before
securing his move to United in August 2004.

Newcastle made the first offer for Rooney but he says he was only
interested in a move to Old Trafford once it became apparent United
boss Sir Alex Ferguson wanted to sign him.

"If no-one else had come in I would have gone to Newcastle," stated
Rooney.

"But I knew that United was the club I wanted to join."