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The question of what to do with late-career Wayne Rooney has perplexed Manchester United and England managers for years. It took United’s Jose Mourinho to find the solution: pawn him off to his boyhood club.
For Rooney, the wunderkind who grew up to be the top scorer in England national team history, the return to Everton is the perfect conclusion to a career that is grinding to a halt. He ignored the big-money lure of China and the…