With total earnings of £300 000 a week, Wayne Rooney can afford to buy any shoes he likes.
However, footage has emerged of the England and Manchester United captain apparently helping himself to trainers and other merchandise from a VIP box at Wembley stadium.
The CCTV appears to show the 30-year-old rifling through a display cabinet in Nike’s corporate hospitality box.
Nike has endorsed Rooney since 2004, and is said to pay him £1million a year.
His spokesman and Nike both say nothing was taken from the hospitality box.
But they refused to elaborate on why the security footage shows Rooney laughing as he appears to rummage through items on display in a cabinet.
As three friends look on, he stacks the items in his arms and even appears to tuck a trainer into his waistband.
The footage allegedly shows the father-of-three emptying a plastic bin liner on to the floor and then filling it with footwear and other items.
The footage, obtained by the Sunday Mirror, shows him carrying the bag out of the room as he and his pals leave.
The footballer and his friends were invited to use the VIP box to watch a boxing match between Carl Froch and George Groves in May 2014.
Just days after Rooney and his friends were at Wembley for the fight, Nike told security bosses that items had been stolen from their hospitality suite.
CCTV showed security guard Mariusz Mozgiel, 37, from North London, rummaging through a cupboard in the corporate box. Wearing a head torch in the dark room, he was spotted stealing a PlayStation console and a speaker system. The father-of-two appeared at Harrow Crown Court last year and admitted two counts of theft from Wembley and Nike.
Rooney’s spokesman said there was ‘no truth whatsoever’ in the claims and described them as ‘false and defamatory’.
He added: ‘Wayne Rooney took no items whatsoever from the Nike box.’
A spokesman for Nike said: ‘This story is not true. We can confirm that nothing was taken from the Nike box.’
(Dailymail)
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