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29th September 2015
10:35am BST

But the former Everton man claims that while he may have wanted to leave United, he never made that desire official by putting in a request to leave.
"I said [to Sir Alex] if you're not going to play me it might be better if I moved on," Rooney said in the upcoming BBC documentary, Wayne Rooney - The Man Behind The Goals.
"But I never put in a transfer request. I don't know why it came out that way."
He says that Sir Alex was the reason he came to United - to work with one of the greats of the game.
“In my eyes the best manager of all-time. For him to be interested in me and wanting me to play under him, there was nowhere else I was going to go.”Explore more on these topics: