MANCHESTER, England (AP) — A judge says Wayne Rooney will have to pay $137,000 to his agent’s former management company but not the $6.6 million it was demanding from the England striker.
Rooney was accused in court of withholding commission on multimillion-dollar deals brokered by management firm Proactive, which used to represent him.
The Manchester United player made no payments after agent Paul Stretford left Proactive acrimoniously in 2008, taking the firm’s star client with him.
Judge Brendan Hegarty ruled Thursday that Proactive was entitled only to a “restitutional remedy” from Rooney and his wife, Coleen.
Rooney said the case was “an attempt to exploit” him and his wife.
