Wayne Rooney: Manchester United to Paris Saint-Germain
With preferred choice Chelsea having dropped out of the running for Rooney following their signing of Drogba and Arsenal having also landed centre-forward Higuain from Madrid, the England international had little option other than moving across the Channel to the big-spending Ligue 1 champions in a deal worth £25m, with the Parisians having been tracking the player all summer long according to the Independent.
And with PSG having also snapped up Edinson Cavani in a French-record 64m euros deal earlier this month, new manager Laurent Blanc is set to take on the rest of Europe next season armed with one of the most fearsome strike duos the world of football has ever seen.
However, despite being bankrolled by the mega-rich Qatar Investment Authority, the French outfit are, just like any other club competing in Europe, subject to Uefa’s Financial Fair Play Regulations, meaning PSG needing to balance their books, and so resulting in the departure of coveted attacker Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Manchester City.