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Originally Posted by NBC
Who knows Locke. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if That Scouse git and Scottish w*nker were just shining everyone on - that it was just one big stitch up.
It was front-page news here and everyone had an opinion on it. "There is no such thing as bad publicity... (except for your own obituary)."
Those idiots deserve each other.
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That would make sense if there was an ounce of benefit to Rooney from doing this, I don't see any though. What would he have gained from this? His clubs fans are now of two minds about him and his teammates can't be all that impressed (unless they were in on it, but that's pretty hard to believe considering that would have almost certainly resulted in a leak). He probably leveraged the situation into increased wages, but that could have been done without the public remarks about the club.
The only possibillity I see is that this was a means to put pressure on the ownership to spend, but I find it kind of hard to believe that an ownership group who got rich in businesses that often faced public scorn, and who have been hated since arrival in Manchester, would give a damn about an extra dose of public pressure.
I'd say the more likely explanation is a Lebron like sense that he could get away with whatever he wanted, probably coming from people around him who are out to leech as much as they can.