WAYNE ROONEY rejected a shedload of money to finish his career in China as he longed for more Premier League pressure.
When Manchester United wanted the ex-England striker off of his £300,000-a-week wages there were not many top clubs queuing up.
But he could have clinched a pay rise by moving his young family to Asia where former team-mate Carlos Tevez was recently earning £650k-a-week.
But the 32-year-old decided to return to his big-spending boyhood club where the demand is to make them into a Premier League force.
Rooney told the BBC: “In the summer when I was leaving Manchester United it would have been quite easy for me to go abroad.
“Go to China, go somewhere else and pick up a lot of money and see out the last few years of my career earning a lot of money.
“That’s just not me. I need those goals, I need that pressure. That desire to play would have been lost if I’d chosen that other option.”
Rooney recently welcomed a fourth child into the family with son Cass Mac joining Kai, Clay and Kit.
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