Weasel

In the same way that today's cuts to public spending by the Conservatives are presented as necessary for the good of the country, while all the time simply being the expression of the Conservative party's ideology, so is the assertion that Wayne Rooney wants away because of the "lack of ambition" of the team just as ridiculous. He's not worried about the team - he's worried about himself.
Look at this by Henry Winter - where he takes a statement by MUST and legitimises Rooney leaving with it. Obviously MUST have an agenda, and I don't want to get into the whole Glazer thing here, and obviously they take the opportunity to get their agenda in the news via the Rooney story. Good on them. But the statement shouldn't be used to argue that Rooney's leaving is tied to the Glazers. Take Henry Winter here:

To lose one star like Cristiano Ronaldo could be considered a misfortune. To lose another in Rooney looks more than carelessness; it looks like the dread hand of debt holding United and Ferguson back.

It's an absolute red herring to bring Ronaldo into it, Ronaldo leaving was about his desire to play for Real, it wasn't about having to sell, it wasn't bad-handling of him, it was good handling that we got another year out of him. And Ronaldo was a special player, Rooney is merely a good player - a good player who deserves even more than Berbatov the moniker of "inconsistent."

Similarly, Jim White gives Rooney his excuse, except he goes even further into dodgy connections:

From his position on the inside, Rooney saw what was happening: United, their financial priorities entirely focussed on paying off debt, were no longer able to compete at the top. Simple as that. Even to utter the phrase Ronaldo, Rooney and Tevez is to send a shiver of discomfort down the spine of any United fan. This should have been the core of their team for years to come, a trio to be mentioned in the same breath as Law, Best and Charlton. By January, all three will have gone. To lose one might be considered unlucky, two careless, but three is a woeful dereliction of duty.

I'm sorry? Why did Tevez leave? Not enough first team football (such was his excuse anyway). But apparently Jim White has him down as the core of our team for years. He could barely geta game. Ronaldo again was a special case. Nothing to do with debt, he wanted to live his dream.
The Rooney Jim White paints is not the Rooney of reality. Rooney's a good player, but he's no Ronaldo, he's got no right to be looking round his fellow players and judging them not good enough to play with him. This season Berba and Nani and Giggs and Scholes should be looking at Rooney and wondering whether he's good enough to play for Man United, not the other way round.
Here's a more realistic version, from David Conn in The Guardian:

The agent who orchestrated Rooney's move then, and is orchestrating it now, is Paul Stretford, the former vacuum cleaner salesman with the chequered career in football, and now heading for another almighty pay day. Rooney, the boyhood Everton fan and player who had pledged his life to the Blues, made himself a red on transfer deadline day, 31 August 2004. The £20m United paid and £50,000 per week salary Stretford negotiated for him made Stretford an initial £1m, rising to £1.5m if Rooney stayed at United for five years. Now, he has.

Stretford has always known this next contract of Rooney's, for the mature five years of a footballer's liftetime, from the age of 25 to 30, ought to dwarf that fee, and be the most lucrative of both their careers and, very likely, ever in English football.

The lengths Stretford went to sign Rooney in the first place emerged in a series of dragged-out hearings which culminated in him being described as an unreliable witness in Warrington crown court, banned by the Football Association from acting as an agent for nine months and fined £300,000 for breaches of the agents' code of conduct.

"The government's programme of cuts looks like a classic example of disaster capitalism: using a crisis to re-shape the economy in the interests of business." Or in Rooney's case: using the Glazer crisis to re-shape his career in the interests of his and his agents wallets..."

Good riddance to both of them.