Party girl shame Rooney scores a £5m profit

HE may have been accused of playing away – but Wayne Rooney is still bringing a fortune home.

Accounts reveal he has netted a near £5million profit from his image rights and investments.

But the figures were posted several months before that image took a kicking after he was held for drink-driving, with party girl Laura Simpson at his side. The accounts from his company Stoneygate 48 show the net worth of his business rose to £17.2million, from £12.4million.

That is on top of his reported £150,000-a-week salary at Everton and other sponsorship deals.

He was on a reported £300,000a-week at Manchester United before his summer transfer. His other business interests have included property investments.

Dad-of-three Rooney, 31, was convicted of being three times the drinks limit when driving Laura, 29, home from Wilmslow, Cheshire at 2am on September 1.

Police stopped him in her VW Beetle as it had a faulty brake light. Last month Rooney’s pregnant wife Coleen, also 31, said she had feared the marriage was over.

She said: “People probably think I’m stupid for staying in my marriage. He’s made selfish mistakes, some he’s learnt from, some not. Maybe that will change?”

Rooney has been doing community service at a garden centre.

ARRESTED Wayne Rooney