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Busby Babe Likens Wayne Rooney To Cristiano Ronaldo, David Beckham

SB Nation’s Manchester United blog, The Busby Babe, has this to say about Wayne Rooney and the possibility of his leaving the team.

[Rooney’s off-field issues] are similar in size and magnitude as David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo. The people around them got in their heads and gave them an inflated sense of ego, combined with multi-million pound endorsement deals and eventually had a public spat with the gaffer. Both were shown the door and both regretted the decision afterwords

For more on Rooney and Manchester United, visit The Busby Babe.

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