And Wayne Rooney, a boyhood Everton fan and Manchester United legend, has even put rivalry to one side to praise Liverpool for their title-winning credentials. Rooney was a pundit on Amazon Prime Video’s coverage of Liverpool vs Real Madrid, and he will have been in full awe of Liverpool’s dominant performance.

Harrison Armstrong will hope his current loan spell with Preston North End is a similarly memorable first chapter he can look back on in a few years time after he's exploded in the Everton first-team set-up, with one Preston-based content creator already tipping him to have a " huge future" beyond Deepdale.

Wayne Rooney has revealed that he came very close to joining Manchester United's Premier League rivals before completing his fateful transfer to Old Trafford from Everton. The forward joined the Red Devils as a prodigious 18-year-old and went on to become a club legend,

Wayne Rooney would like to take on a new job but there is a major problem holding him back. After leaving Manchester United in 2017 as the club's all-time leading goalscorer, Rooney returned to his boyhood club, Everton, before spells with DC United and Derby County.

Wayne Rooney has revealed he came close to joining another Premier League club during his Everton days, admitting he “would have gone” if Manchester United hadn’t made their move.

Wayne Rooney has opened up on a remarkable story from his teenage years at Everton, when then-manager David Moyes banned his then-girlfriend, Coleen, from attending the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards.

Former Manchester United and England legend Wayne Rooney said he 'was bored' when scoring 34 goals in a season because he wanted to 'get involved' more.

WAYNE ROONEY has shared a hilarious chat he had with Sir Bobby Robson when he tried to sign him for Newcastle. In the summer of 2004 the England legend was caught up in a transfer tussle between