Manchester United have completed the signing of England forward Wayne Rooney from Everton.
The 18-year-old is now registered as a United player after he passed a medical with the club earlier today and all the details were finally agreed.
The clubs reached “outline agreement” earlier today and the deal was completed with four and a half hours to go before the closure of the transfer window.
Rooney is currently out of action after breaking his foot at Euro 2004. But that has not deterred United from getting their man, who arrived at the training complex with United’s club doctor Mike Stone.
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Rooney was not in the stands at Old Trafford when Everton drew with United yesterday but arrived in Manchester less than 24 hours later.
He hit out at Everton at the weekend for the response to his transfer request last week and said he was “gutted” at the situation at the club.
Fans at Goodison jeered the absent teenager during their team’s 2-1 win against West Brom after he demanded a move.
Newcastle bid £20 million and then £23.5 million for the Croxteth-born player who has scored 17 goals for the Toffees since arriving in the Premiership spectacularly two years ago.
But the departure of manager Sir Bobby Robson yesterday, plus the fact the Magpies could only offer Uefa Cup football compared to the lure of Champions League action at Old Trafford, would appear to have swayed Rooney away from the north-east.
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United failed with their first bid of £20 million before increasing their offer over the weekend.
The teenager’s reputation - and consequently his transfer value - rose significantly in the summer when he was the star of England’s otherwise unremarkable Euro 2004 campaign, until breaking the fifth metatarsal bone in his right foot in the quarter-final defeat against hosts Portugal.