Wayne Rooney Contract: Man United Will Now Build To Be a Strong Title Contender

After a tumultuous 10 days, Manchester United have been able to resolve Wayne Rooney's contract situation by signing the 24-year-old to a five-year extension to extend his contract to 2015.

Throughout the last several days, we have seen Sir Alex Ferguson read out a statement saying that Rooney wanted to leave Old Trafford over concern for his future.

Rooney later confirmed that message, and it seemed extremely unlikely that Rooney was going to be a Red Devil past January 2011.

But now, Ferguson was able to work his magic once again, as he was able to convince the Glazers to get the money to keep his superstar at Old Trafford.

Out of all these actions, Fergie truly is the winner here, not Rooney, but now the Scot has another major task that he will need to accomplish.

That task is to make Manchester United truly competitive again in the next year in order to keep Rooney and the fans happy.

This next year will be extremely important for Rooney and the development of Manchester United, as Rooney felt that Man United were not going to be competitive in the next couple of years.

For the last couple of years, many have been speculating when Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Gary Neville would retire. Even though Giggs and Scholes both can produce today, they are not going to be nearly as powerful in 2012 or 2013.

However, United have never been able to secure any player to effectively replace Scholes and Giggs, something that can be a major problem.

Plus, Man United will need to find an effective goalkeeper to replace the retiring Edwin Van der Sar.

In the next year, United will need to find players that really could effectively replace these two former greats.

Due to the need of change at Old Trafford, young players with tremendous upside must be implemented into the squad in order to win the league by 2015.

Whoever these players might be, they will need to play like superstars and will need to be signed within the next year in order to overcome the learning curve of being a member of Manchester United.