Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson demanded that his salary was doubled in the aftermath of Wayne Rooney’s big pay increase in 2010.
Rooney was set to leave United before signing a deal worth £250,000 a week.
“I told them I did not think it fair that Rooney should earn twice what I made,” Ferguson says in a new book.
“[United co-chairman] Joel Glazer said: ‘I totally agree but what should we do?’ It was simple. We just agreed no player should be paid more than me.”
