Jack Pitt-Brooke

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The Athletic FC Podcast · What If... Wayne Rooney joined Manchester City in 2010? · 13 Sep 2026 podcast

Whether they might have whether they might have turned their attention to to Suarez of Ajax in that January window. matched

Uh I think oh I think both things basically, Emma. matched

I think that it would have been huge change if they'd lost 'cause they lost David Gill as well in the summer of twenty thirteen. matched

If they'd lost David Gill, Sir Alex and Rooney all in the summer of twenty thirteen, that would have been huge. matched

And it would have clearly made David Moyes' job even harder, having to not just to replace Ferguson and, you know, all the kind of boardroom level change with Gill's department. matched

But also to do that without Rooney. matched

You know, as Andy said, Rooney did have a good thirteen fourteen, he scored seventeen Premier League goals. matched

Um and Unite they would have had to they would have had to do do do things differently, wouldn't they? matched

They would have had to have spent more money in them in the summer twenty thirteen and then had somebody else to play up front, probably with Van Persie fr from then on. matched

That all said, as Dan said earlier, I think it's hard to make matched

The I think it's hard to make the case that giving Rooney that big contract in 2013 was really good for United. matched

Um, because I felt like the middle years of the 2010s were probably a bit too much dominated by the question of how do you fit in Rooney? matched

How do you get the best out of him? matched

Do you have to move him into midfield? matched

And if United had sold him in the summer of 2013, then after the short-term pain of losing him, I think probably. matched

Probably over the next three, four, five years they might have been in a better place, certainly if they had spent the money. matched

So I and I don't think it would have been particularly if he'd gone to Chelsea in twenty thirteen as opposed to Manchester City in twenty ten, I don't think it would have been as much of a blow to the the the kind of standing of the club and the kind of I did we I don't think it would have dented the pride in the same way. matched

way than it did in 2010. matched

And I feel like Ferguson probably knew that as well. matched

Uh I think th the fact that he made those very well publicized comments around his last game about Rooney wanting to leave, to me that almost felt like Ferguson would that Rooney would have left with Ferguson's blessing in 2013. matched

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