Making the short journey across from Merseyside and Everton, an 18-year-old Wayne made the perfect start to life as a Red, scoring a hat-trick on a memorable winning debut at Old Trafford against Fenerbahce in the Champions League.
Rooney would, of course, never look back and by the time he returned to Goodison Park in 2017, he had safely become a United legend, as the club’s all-time top goal scorer and having won pretty much everything there is to win.
His stats and career record in M16 are both easy to appreciate, but as a fellow striker, former Red Danny Webber was in awe of the manner in which he played the game and his position.