Manchester United have potentially made Wayne Rooney the highest paid footballer on the planet. The Sun says Rooney agreed to stay at Manchester United yesterday - after Old Trafford bosses made him the world's highest-paid player on £250,000-A-WEEK.

The striker, 25 tomorrow, signed a five-year mega-deal, despite earlier announcing he would quit the Premier League giants.

Wantaway Wayne changed his mind after Man United's American owners intervened and offered him the pay rise topping £8million a year.

The amazing pay deal - once bonuses are included - will keep him as a Red Devil until 2015.

Rooney's £65million contract smashes United's strict salary ceiling and, if he performs well, could bring him £8.3million a year MORE than his old weekly pay packet of £90,000.