Wayne Rooney was the subject of a £300,000-a-week offer from the China Super League club Beijng Guoan in the summer which was rejected, but the player could yet be a target again this January if he remains on the fringes of the Manchester United team.

The Beijing Guoan chairman Luo Ning said in an interview on a Beijing radio show this week that he had met with Rooney’s long-term agent Paul Stretford and put the offer to him during the summer but that it had been rejected.