This was what all the fuss was about.
After the fanfare, excitement and emotion behind the return to his boyhood club, Wayne Rooney showed why there was so much clamour to see him back as a Blue with a glorious opener in Everton’s 2-1 pre-season friendly win against Gor Mahia.
Upon penning a two-year contract with the Club on Sunday, the 31-year-old said he was eager to show his qualities with the ambitious Toffees.
Four days later – and 7,000 miles away in Tanzania – he did just that. With 34 minutes on the clock of the Blues’ first pre-season outing of the summer in Dar es Salaam, the forward received a pass from Ademola Lookman, looked up, and from 30 yards out, sent a shot sailing into the top left-hand corner with his right foot.