Daily Express Thursday, August 8, 2019 25DX1ST‘Coleen feels
she has
played her
part by
supporting
Wayne’s
move, now
it’s payback
time’
Washington, where the Rooneys
lived in a £12million house
complete with pool, gym and home
cinema, she “never settled”.
The TV presenter is extremely
close to her parents, Colette and
Tony McLoughlin and brothers Joe
and Anthony.
After 14 years living in and
around Cheshire while Wayne was
playing for Manchester United and
then briefly for his former home
team, Everton, Coleen has many
friends in the area who she missed
desperately while in America.
She was a stay-at-home mum in
Washington DC, with Wayne
frequently away playing in football
tournaments, and Coleen often cut
a lonely figure.
She was photographed frequently
shopping in the city’s designer
boutiques, going to the gym, the
hairdresser’s and the manicurist’s –
but always on her own.
In contrast, pictures of her letting
her hair down in Ibiza and going
out for lunch in Manchester last
month show her surrounded by
girlfriends and howling with laugh-
ing and chatting happily. And she
has lost no time in catching up with
family since her move back from
America. She visited relatives in
Croagh Patrick in Ireland in early
July, took the boys and her parents
to Legoland at Windsor and on
Tuesday was seen on a family day
out at Paultons Park in Hampshire.C
OLEEN is said to feel that
she has played her part by
supporting Wayne’s move
to America – and now it’s payback
time. She did concede that it was
hard when her sons were so settled
in their Manchester home to move
but Coleen said she never doubted
he should sign the contract with
DC United and that the whole
family should go with him.
But sources close to the family
say Coleen felt “alienated” in the
States and that it was time Wayne
“put her and the children first”.
His wife thinks that the new role
of player-coach is “well-suited” toWayne
according to
a national
newspaper
source, with
Coleen appar-
ently thinking
“coaching
could be the
making of
Wayne.” She has
allegedly told him “it’s time to
grow up,” and feels he can act as a
“role model to younger players.”
As she puts the finishing touches
to their mansion – set in 40 acres,
with six en-suite bedrooms, a bar,
snooker room, cinema, indoor
swimming pool, orangery, stable
and six-car garage – Coleen may
reflect on the family’s stateside
adventure with relief that it’s over.
But Wayne is not joining his
family until January when the US
soccer season ends. Coleen may
well be praying her husband finds
constructive ways to entertain him-
self out there alone and brings no
further shame on her or her family
from thousands of miles away.CANNY
COLEEN’S
HOME WIN
It will cost Wayne Rooney millions to move
his family back to Britain but the smile on
his wife’s face says it’s worth every penny
ALL SMILES:
Coleen
back in
Manchester
and, left,
Wayne when
he was
revealed as
Derby’s new
player-coach.
Below, the
picture she
posted after
her boys
finished their
first year of
school in U.S.