The rich still asks the poor to "eat bread".
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As Rooney cashes in, his adopted city prepares for worst of cuts
Unsettled striker will earn up to £200,000 a week for next five years, whilst in Manchester alone, 40,000 workers are expected to their lose jobs by 2014.
So, too, has the amount of money he will be paid. According to sources within the game, Rooney will now be awarded up to £200,000 each week for the next five years to kick a ball for United. It is a weekly pay packet from which he could still expect change if he was planning to buy a red-brick, three-bedroom, semi-detached home in the neighbourhood of Manchester United's ground, Old Trafford, an area with deprivation and high numbers of poor immigrant families which by historical quirk has provided the setting for the most popular football team in the world since the patch of land was carved out from beside the Cheshire railway line in 1910.
It is now estimated that 40,000 people in the Greater Manchester area will lose their jobs as a result of Chancellor George Osborne's plans to cut £83bn from public spending to fight the deficit. Those cuts will translate into the loss of 30,000 public-sector posts and a further 10,000 job losses from private businesses.
For those disembarking from the coaches outside Old Trafford in the drizzle last night under the watchful gaze of the United Trinity – statues of George Best, Denis Law and Bobby Charlton – most could only wonder at the riches on show. Igor Michurin, 34, a doctor from Novosibirsk in central Russia, emerged from the megastore clutching a pair of Manchester United pyjamas for his daughter. He said his club, FC Sibir, could never afford to sign a Rooney. "Yes, he is a very good footballer, but he needs to grow up. He makes mistakes, but that is natural when you are young." Bayu Chang, a 33-year-old banker from Malaysia, was less understanding: "For me, he should go, because he has the intention to go. It's too much money, of course, at such a young age."
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YURAN PERAMAH
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