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Wayne Rooney’s agent on limiting his commercial availability - he’s a commercial clothes horse apparently!
Paul Stretford speaking to http://www.sportspromedia.com/notes_..._new_contract/
“First and foremost he’s a professional footballer playing at the highest level. To achieve the commercial parts, he has to be the best he can be in the main part. We’ve been very restrictive in terms of the number of days he can work and that in turn restricts the number of commercial partners you can bring. If I was looking after Rory McIlroy for instance and I tie up a deal in Korea and I want him to be in Korea on Wednesday to sign a contract and take a picture, within reason, provided Rory’s happy, that’s what would happen. But with Wayne you can’t do that because you’ve got training, you’ve got games, you’ve got a very long season. At all times you can’t lose sight of the fact of what it is that makes him the commercial clothes horse that he’s become.”