He has informed United he has no intention of signing a new contract and is ready to contemplate following Carlos Tevez's path across Manchester and the potential minefield and recriminations of swapping one club for the other.
Carlos Ancelotti, the Chelsea manager, confirmed today that he would be interested in Rooney if he could establish any sense on the player's part that he would be willing to move to Stamford Bridge. But the reigning Footballer of the Year is leaning more towards City, acutely aware of the potential riches of joining the wealthiest club in England.
Although a perception has built that he wants to move to Spain, he has told team-mates that City, not Real Madrid or Barcelona, is the more realistic destination. Rooney has come to dislike aspects of life in England, specifically the media intrusion, and is open-minded about moving abroad, but there are other issues.
His wife, Colleen, is reluctant to be apart from her 12-year-old sister, Rosie, who suffers from the brain disorder Rett syndrome and whose condition worsened in the week after newspaper allegations appeared of Rooney having a relationship with a prostitute.
City are under pressure to reduce their wage bill to meet Uefa's financial fair-play requirements but they are relaxed about the issue and believe there are ways around it. If, for example, they were to lure Rooney away from Old Trafford on a salary of £250,000 a week they could recoup around two-thirds of that by selling, to name but two, Roque Santa Cruz and Craig Bellamy.
FANS UP AND DOWN THE COUNTRY ARE IN SHOCK THIS MORNING AT THE PROSPECT OF WATCHING WHAT COULD POTENTIALLY BE THE UGLIEST SQUAD OF PLAYERS EVER ASSEMBLED BY ONE CLUB ...... PLAYING IN HIGH DEFINITION IN HOMES AND PUBS ALL ACROSS THE LAND.
Darlington fan Coolio Duff said " I am a Quaker at heart , always have been, always will be, but I do like to watch t' footie on t' tellybox at weekend. Now I may have to draw' t line at allowing my eldest [Shaney] to watch Manchester City playing in t' EPL if this Rooney thing goes through." He went on, " young kids cant be expected to keep lunch down if they're watching the likes of Tevez, Lescott AND Rooney all in the same team, not on a 42" screen, and certainly not in 3D. If I want to see a bunch of Klingons running around on t' tellybox, I'll watch Star Trek." - " Sky Sports will simply have to use some form of pixilating technology to make t' matches more child friendly or else I'm off to Beijing,"
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