Wayne Rooney has sensationally claimed he told Sir Alex Ferguson to 'f*** off' when the Manchester United manager tried to sign him from Everton when he was just 14.
Rooney would go on and enjoy the finest years of his career at Old Trafford in the red of United but as a young teenager, he only had eyes on his boyhood club Everton.
And he had no qualms about telling someone as authoritative as Ferguson as much, even at such a young age. Rooney told The Sun: 'Sir Alex Ferguson tried to sign me when I was 14.