Derby County player-coach Wayne Rooney has recalled how he forced a move from Everton to Manchester United.

Rooney, 34, came through the ranks at boyhood club Everton before making a big-money move to Old Trafford in 2004.

"I'm an ambitious person and I want to win trophies. I knew staying at Everton for another year, another two years...that wasn't going to happen," Rooney told Amazon Prime.

"I felt I was good enough to go into the Manchester United team so I was ready to move. To be honest I was ready to move the year before but that didn't happen.

"I went in to David Moyes and told him this is the situation and in fairness Everton needed the money.

"I think deep down he knew so I went in and told him I wanted to leave and he said 'if you want to leave, you'll have to put a transfer request in'.

"So I said 'ok' and went out into the canteen, wrote a transfer request out on a piece of paper and said 'here you go'."

Rooney was vilified by Everton supporters for leaving the club and spent 13 years at Old Trafford before an emotional return to Goodison Park.

He adds: "When I got in the Everton first team I knew I was the best player.

"That's not being cocky...plus we had a very bad team at the time. I knew I was the best player and I knew before long I would have to move on if I wanted to win trophies."