Happy returns for Roo the Blue

PAY-CUT: Wayne Rooney STEVE MILLAR WAYNE ROONEY will return to where it all started this week after Everton look to have completed a £10million deal to take him back to Goodison Park.

Rooney, 31, had a medical yesterday and will rejoin his boyhood club 13 years after packing his bags for Manchester United in a £25.6m move.

It will be an emotional comeback for Rooney who as an emerging Everton player revealed the slogan on his T-shirt: “Once a Blue, Always a Blue.”

But there is no sentiment in his return to the club which set him on the road to riches and worldwide superstardom.

Everton boss Ronald Koeman firmly believes that Rooney can play a major part in his Goodison revolution with the Dutch boss already splashing £86m on his major rebuilding job.

Koeman sees Rooney as a born winner who can make a real impact and drive Everton into a top six place and beyond.

He would not have brought Rooney in simply to complete a fairytale – the hard-line Goodison boss is not interested in that kind of sentimental scenario.

Koeman is keen to tap into Rooney’s winning mentality after he agreed to slash his wages in half to £125,000 a week.

And, in another move to set the record straight, reports that Koeman has read the riot act to Rooney have been dismissed out of hand.

It was suggested that Roo was warned by Koeman that he will not tolerate bad behaviour and will not have a drinking culture at his club. But that showdown has not happened.

Rooney was receptive to a move to the Chinese Super League with Beijing Guoan and Shenzhen showing huge interest.

But wife Coleen, also from Liverpool, did not want to uproot their young children and move to the Far East away from the rest of the Rooney clan in Merseyside and Cheshire.