Jack Pitt-Brooke

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

And clearly in 2010 that was not the case. matched

It was. matched

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I also think Ferguson was really good at m he was really good at making it look like United never lost players who they didn't want to, or when they did lose players, it was always on their terms. matched

So obviously with with when Cristiano Ronaldo went to Real Madrid in two thousand and nine for you know, I think Ferguson and United were able to paint this as kind of a success, right? matched

Like we got an extra year out of him, a year in which matched

Which we we a a year in which we won the Premier League again, we got back to the Champions League final, we got a world record fee from Real Madrid for him, which was always one of Ferguson's conditions for Ronaldo's departure. matched

And so while they were sad to l sad to lose him, obviously because he was so good, it was sort of spinnable, I think, to an es to an extent as a success. matched

Um when Tevas went to Manchester City, it was may maybe slightly matched

harder to do that, but they were able, as Andy referred to earlier, to kind of make it look as there were very unique circumstances around Tevez and and his own situation. matched

Whereas I think that if Rooney had left a city in 2010, that would have been really hard. matched

That would have been really hard for United to present as any kind of success. matched

I think it would have I think it actually would have hurt them far more in matched

the sense of the damage it would do to the sort of esteem of Manchester United and just to the the kind of ego and pride to lose a player of that caliber to their local rivals. matched

Local rivals who they had made a big Ferguson made a big thing about being the kind of noisy neighbours and so on. matched

And so I think that for all of those reasons it was almost more from that like political perspective, it was more important for United to keep Rooney in twenty ten matched

Then even from a football perspective. matched

Pretty badly. matched

Uh I think that I think there was already I think I'm right in saying there were protests from Manchester United fans outside of Rooney's house at the like roughly around the time that this was happening, effectively to, you know, to to kind of put some pressure on him not to go to not to go to Manchester City. matched

Um and and obviously the move didn't happen in the end, but I'm sure that if the move had happened, then matched

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