Wayne Rooney says Manchester United's decline started when the club prioritised commercial deals over football. Rooney: "I think after Cristiano Ronaldo left and Carlos Tevez left, I started looking at the direction of the club. I remember Gary bringing something up before he left about how things were changing commercially, and it made me think about what was happening with the team as well. The club offered me a new five-year contract, but we'd just sold Tevez, we just sold Ronaldo. I said to the manager it was no disrespect to Phil Jones or Chris Smalling, but they weren't replacing Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez. I didn't want another transition. I didn't feel I had time for that in my career, so I had to ask the question, were we going to compete for trophies straight away or was this going to be another three or four-year rebuild? He told me to get out of his office. Gary: "I also remember standing in front of the dressing room telling the lads that if we didn't stand together, we'd regret it because in five or six years the players coming in would end up doing commercial appearances all week. I got outvoted. Rooney: "Looking back now, football has changed, but I genuinely think the focus became more commercial than football. That's probably where some of the issues the club has today started."