I'm not that bothered by his wage be honest. He has at least earned his money through past achievements unlike other players at club who are also paid handsomely and have done little for the club. I don't personally judge players on their transfer fee or wages.
I read something similar when he signed the new contract. I read that his basic wage is £200k-£250k and the rest is made up from image rights. I might be mistaken on this, but think he bought his image rights from United?
Him and his agent picked the perfect time to negotiate a new contract and they took inexperienced negotiators to the cleaners. The situation as far as I'm concerned it is what it is and the blame for it lies with Woodward and Moyes.
I agree there's little to no point judging a player by his transfer fee but I do think wages can sometimes be fair game to batter someone over if they're not keeping up their end of the bargain. Rooney in my opinion has kept up his end of the deal he tries his hardest and is now probably more of a model professional than he was at 25 but the reality is that his body is giving up on him and he can't be physially anywhere near the level he was in his prime. That could be down to any number of things, rushing back from to many injuries, he apparently likes a drink and a smoke, not looking after his body well enough when injured etc but yesterday was his 750th appearence for club and country it might just be that like a trusty old car there's to many miles on the engine.
Raul, Ronaldo (Brazilian), Owen, Torres and probably many more who burst on the scene as teenagers were all pretty much finished at 30 injuries and long seasons destroyed their bodies now most played well into their 30's but they were/are shadows of the players they were at their best and maybe Rooney is like that. People forgot how important the speed and intensity of his running were to his game, take that away and what do you have left?
You hear lots of numbers floated around the £300k a week figure that was reported was what the deal was potentially worth. My understanding is that included a lot of image rights clauses and bonuses and apparently a big part of the deal was the club gave Rooney and his management access to their marketing teams to help grow his brand, basically agreeing for Rooney to become front and centre on all Utd marketing.
Most of the stuff I read suggested he was on £200k a week but there were a lot of potential add ons over the 5 years of his contract that would bump his wages up but given the way the club & Rooney have performed over that period my guess is not a lot of them have been hit.