In a candid interview with Gary Neville on “The Overlap” Rooney expressed his regret over the incident. “David Moyes was really good for me at Everton,” Rooney said. “He sued me after I left the club—I hammered him when I left because of how I felt at the time. I regret that. I spoke to him a few years after I left, I called him up and apologized because the older you get, you realize why he was doing things. It was new to him to have a player getting all those headlines, for him to figure out. He was a young manager at the time, it was new to him. When I look back, he was good for me, he was constantly on me. He was trying to not let me think that I was better than I was. I was a handful in my youth. In the indoor gym, I was launching rockets from one end to the other. Moysey walked in when I was just 16.”

Following the resolution of the legal dispute, Moyes expressed his relief and satisfaction. “Anyone who knows me well would, I hope, regard me as a man of honour and integrity,” Moyes stated. “I was disappointed and wanted people to know that what had been written was completely untrue. I felt that I had no choice but to take action for a full apology and damages. Having accepted these, I do not intend to make any financial gain from this and shall give that to the Everton Former Players Foundation”.