I was watching Corrie when Scholes called about Man Utd move - Rooney

""While I was still at Everton, I was sat at home one night and watching Coronation Street and my house phone rings. So I answered it, it's Paul Scholes," he said. "Like, 'Wazza, it's Scholesy are you going to sign for us or what?' I was just sat there, I was like: What's going on here?""

""I think, if I'm being honest, that Alex Ferguson wanted to wait another year. And then Newcastle kept coming in and I would have gone to Newcastle if United didn't sign me then," he said. "It got to the last day and then [Everton chairman] Bill Kenwright wouldn't send the forms over. And Bill, God rest him, was very emotional. And I'm a local lad from Liverpool playing for Everton. It was massive. And he actually got on the phone, put his mum on the phone to me when I was at Old Trafford, then he got on the phone and he was crying down the phone." Rooney joined United on transfer deadline day, with the deal coming so quickly that he ended up wearing his wife Coleen's cousin's jumper when he made the move. "I was quite chilled and there was a lot of press trying to follow me around and stuff," Rooney said. "I was actually staying in Coleen's uncle's in Liverpool. And the night before deadline day, we sat in, we had a Chinese, a few glasses of wine and then I actually had no clothes there. "So, the jumper that I signed for Mancheste"

Paul Scholes called teenage Wayne Rooney at home while Rooney watched Coronation Street, directly asking if Rooney would sign for Manchester United. Manchester United signed Rooney from Everton in 2004 when he was 18. Sir Alex Ferguson preferred to wait another year before recruiting Rooney, but persistent interest from Newcastle forced a swift move. Everton chairman Bill Kenwright delayed sending transfer paperwork, became emotional during negotiations and involved family by phone. The transfer completed on deadline day and arrived so suddenly that Rooney arrived at Manchester United wearing a relative's jumper after staying at his future wife's uncle's house with few clothes.

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