Wayne Rooney’s son Kai has been provided a brand new deal by Manchester United, the place he hopes of observe within the footsteps of his well-known dad, in response to a report.
The 16-year-old ahead, who finishes college in the summertime, has been in United’s academy for quite a few years and the membership have been impressed by his progress.
It’s probably a scholarship might be provided to the teenager in the summertime or on the eve of the brand new season, with a £50,000 a 12 months deal within the pipeline, in response to The Sun.
Kai is claimed to be a part of a ‘very robust’ group of 14 kids provided new offers by the membership.
The gifted bunch additionally contains Jacey Carrick – son of Michael, who’s interim United supervisor.
Final month, underneath the Outdated Trafford lights, it was lastly Kai’s evening following a run of harm struggles. The Rooney shirt hanging up within the dwelling dressing room was his. The United swimsuit, freshly pressed, and the sneakers, rigorously polished, had been his. The identify on the official FA Youth Cup team-sheet was his.
Kai Rooney has been provided a brand new Manchester United contract that would see him earn £50,000 a 12 months
Well-known mother and father Colleen and Wayne watch on as he performed at Outdated Trafford final month – additionally in entrance of first staff supervisor Michael Carrick
Kai might be hoping to observe in dad Wayne’s footsteps and turn out to be a legend of the Purple Devils
For the very first time it was he who stepped out on the Theatre of Goals as a United participant. And it was the flip of pop Wayne and mum Coleen to play cheerleaders from the sidelines.
By way of the PA system got here the announcement from Alan Keegan, the voice of Outdated Trafford, who learn out the Rooney identify numerous instances lately, that the 16-year-old was approaching to switch defender Godwill Kukonki in further time. It triggered one of many greatest cheers of the evening.
The choice by Darren Fletcher, considered one of Wayne Rooney’s outdated team-mates, triggered a wave of ‘Rooney, Rooney’ chants from the two,000-strong crowd in attendance.
{The teenager}, as he all the time does, took all of it in his stride as mum and pop, sat alongside first-team interim head coach Michael Carrick, snapped a photograph or two to mark the proud second.
‘My message of assist is that I am coming alongside to observe and I am excited,’ Carrick mentioned of his determination to attend.
‘I used to be fortunate sufficient to play and win the FA Youth Cup once I was younger at West Ham.
‘It is such an necessary competitors, particularly for this membership. Younger gamers, Outdated Trafford underneath the floodlights, feeling what it means, a little bit of expectation.
‘It is a implausible alternative for the younger boys to go and take the following step. We’re all totally behind them, it will be a tricky sport, however we’re trying ahead to it.’
It’s understood the Rooney household haven’t but agreed to the supply on the desk, however a scholarship that turns into knowledgeable deal would see the left-footed ahead earn £50,000 a 12 months with an annual signing-on payment.
