Rooney the jewel in crown for Glazer

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With Glazer’s sons Joel, Avi and Bryan watching from the directors’ box for the first time since the American’s hugely controversial £790 million takeover, Wayne Rooney produced a command performance to virtually guarantee safe passage into the Champions League group stages.

The £27m Alex Ferguson spent on the teenage England striker 12 months ago may be small fry to the cash invested in United by the Glazers, but it is on Rooney’s shoulders that their ambitious business plan rests.