Barcelona Make Signing Wayne Rooney Top Priority - Report

Reigning Spanish and European champions Barcelona are to footfall up their absorption in Manchester United antagonist Wayne Rooney by alms him a bacon of €9 million - afterwards taxes - per season, according to a address in the Daily Star.

The address claims that Barcelona drillmaster Josep Guardiola has told his band that Rooney is the club's prime alteration target. The Catalans are accepted to accomplish a move for the 24-year-old this summer.

Rooney's accepted Manchester United arrangement is due to expire in the summer of 2012, but the Red Devils are bent to authority on to their brilliant antagonist and afresh opened arrangement negotiations.

However, United are afraid to accommodated Rooney's ample banking demands and accept adjourned negotiations until afterwards the 2010 World Cup. Barcelona are reportedly added than accommodating to bout Rooney's demands though.

The Red Devils are getting bedeviled by banking worries and a huge Barcelona action for Rooney isn't acceptable to be angry down.