the bbc‘s natalie perks caught up with wayne rooney in washington to see how the striker is having an effect on his new team, dc united. the success of the club has been long established. they had some great years between ‘96 and 200a. they lacked in recent years the star quality. there was really no player that stood out that really appealed to the masses. wayne's name came up, and instantly you get excited. everyone knows who wayne is and the resume, what he is about...

when wayne rooney was linked to dc united, people knew that was a big deal. people knew early on he had a connection with the city. we took him to audi field. showed him the some of the areas where he could find a home for his family. that's a big part of the equation. what will we do with the kids, schools, homes. he got really comfortable early on and really i think after today's time he said "i'm all in, i want to do this". i can see the team are talented and there in a good position. i just want to come in and help the team. wee — we being the mls — in the early days were guilty of players in europe or south america coming over here in their 30s for a vacation.

and as the league has gone that does not fly any more. the league is too good. he put that to rest very early when he came over for his first game with us and even with his players in the first training session. guys like that you do not know how they will come into the locker room and work with the team. wayne was one of the guys that was humbled, and talk to everyone on the first day on and joked with us. he has been cohesive with the group. it is been great working on and off the field with them. since day one he's been there for us. his first day the ground, he arrived july at almost 100 degrees temperatures. crazy summer hot day in dc. we had some academy members present there and he is talking to players and you can see his connection there with his team—mates. and at the end of the session he carries equipment, grabs it, walks it into the equipment room. we don't have a lot of first—team pros that do that. just shows that he is prepared

to roll up his sleeves and get prepared to work. i think he has been a perfect fit. you don't know what you would get in a forward defensively. he is here to win and perform and do whatever it takes to win a game. that resume. he does what he does. he trains hard, he makes the right play, he is super talented a player. a player with a large amount of experience. it was pretty seamless. he just fit in. instantly he became one of the guys, he did not ask for special treatment. and i think the guys took the him fairly quickly. i think it is important you are part of the team and you do with your team—mates are doing and you don't start demanding things. it's not a big issue to be honest. i think it isjust wayne. he just wants to play his football.

he doesn't care about all those things. he cares about the team—mates and being in a good situation but not boring about all this other stuff. he just wants to play the game, he loves the game. you always said you would not play abroad, didn't you? what changed 7 when i was younger i never thought of playing anywhere other than the premier league or you just look at different opportunities and you have to make a decision on what the best avenue to take really. and i felt at the time this was the best for me to take. how important was it for you to come here with still plenty left in the tank? i think it was the right time for me to come and play here. but also for my family with the ages of my children. if i'd come two years down line and it probably would have been too late to try and start at a later age.

the timing with my children was right. what are the biggest lifestyle changes for you being here? i think it's just a bit more relaxing for us as a family. if you want to go to the supermarket or it want to get a coffee, it's quite easy to do where at times in england it could be difficult. you have space and more time to enjoy your family which is something that i like. you do not have the tabloids after you. he is allowed to come here with his family, live in the suburbs, take his kids to the playground. in dc he can have that life. still an international city. he can go get back and forth wherever he wants to go but without that flash that la or new york would have for him. he is not going being chased by the tabloids any more, which is probably a pleasant change for him. everyone knows you back home

and you do have to plan more than you would. you can pick the kids up from school, be spontaneous and do whatever the kids want to do rather than sometimes doing what you think is the easiest thing to do. you are not as showy, you don't have a big ego. but you almost get airdropped midseason into a club. that's a difficult thing to negotiate. were you worried about what they might think of you? no not really. i think i have always been confident in my ability. the weather that time was so rotten... playing in that heat, i adjusted well to it. went on a good run of winning games and once the team saw that you were good enough to win games against the better teams in the league also and get the team a lot of confidence and would be

playing for the last two months now. was it important for you to let the fans and the people who hired you early on that you are notjust here for one final big paycheque, you were here to work? yeah, i think particularly the owners and been the manager they knew from me that wasn't the case. and you have people who complained about other players who came over here and not do well. i was worried that this was another cash grab that he would come here and make some money and, "see you later" and that was it. we're in last place so it could not have gotten much worse. it was midseason, you drop a superstar into a club, leahy has ever played in, players he has never played with. it is not going to work right away or at least that is everybody expected. you have a corner at the end of the game.

they need three points of this match, one point will not do it. but to take a loss in this situation would be gunning. check them i said —— has saying this is it. clementjohnson is running on it. he is one of the players that other players dislike off the pitch. but for fans you can imagine how we feel about him. our defences up in the box. will they take it away from us? with this be it? then i see this streak going across the field. i was thinking that is great our defence can go back now. you just think that at least it is done. then all of a sudden it is served up field. he lashes this 40 yard crossfield ball right on the head of a 5—3 attack. i think his header gets lost for the get up so high and the given squirrel it was a great header.

it was a big moment to go from following and win the game and then we could make the playoffs. that's a type of moment you don't need to hammer home to your team. there were 50 million views around the world or however many. these guys are on their phones all day long and they see it and they understood what it represented and what type of person and player that we now are happy to have here at dc united. i watch him at the end of the game, he is grinning from ear to ear. he looks like a kid having a blast. it could be some one's backyard, on the street somewhere and it becomes infectious. if that can happen, anything can happen in our season and he did. i think he has raised the level of everyone on our team. everyone has gotten better after he has come here.

it's pretty cool to see that when you know the guys have potential and then he brings the best out of them. he is pretty vocal in the locker room and before games or have time and even after games. there was an instance last week where we had won a game and it wasn't our best performance by any means and he came in and said it wasn't good enough and everyone was kind of thrown off because we had just won the game. it was a nice kick in the but. it was a wake—up call for us. he came here looking at the 20—year—old looking to prove himself. that is kind of the level of effort he was laying out. yeah had response from the supporters and other players in the field that everyone has responded to that. i'm not someone thatjust wants to win, you want to win and perform well. of course this came from... you want to perform well as a team and no one would you are cheating on the pitch. the facilities are probably not what he is used to in england.

i have seen those training grounds. yeah, we have some work to do. you have room to them on a teammate. that must be a new thing for him. yeah, he said he just wants to be a another guy on the team and that is the way you were treated here and he flew on a commercial flight with us and then roomed with me in one of our away games so i guess it was weird for him. i have never really done this work before. but that is part of it it's not really a big deal to me. but he had a great budget, didn't he? he did. i usually like to sleep with my laptop like some form of sitcom because i like to fall asleep to a temperature of show that i have for and anything i love, trashy reality television. what do you think annoyed him about rooming with you?

i don't know, i think i would be the perfect roommate. has he imposed music on the locker room yet? a little bit. i put on the music i want rather than there's. is a little different than what i am listening to. a bit ofjames bay. mumford and sons. maybe that is the problem. what was it like this summer to watch england reached the semi—final in the world cup? the last time i watch england and going to parties, the set up when i was 16 and i7. to go back to that and watch as a fan was different than what i had been used to. but it was great. as an england fan i obviously wanted them to go one step further and try to get to the final.

plenty of abundance and quitting your former manager saying you have left europe too soon. you so have plenty to get, what would you say to them? yeah, i still feel good of the play in the premier league but again. it was a decision i made based on where i felt was the right place for me to play. i think he is enjoying it and as a manager that is excited to have a guy come in your team with his resume, but his stature and to be enjoying the game again. when i watched him last year it did not seem like he was having as much fun as he is right now. he was at his boyhood club but he was in a bad situation which was almost worse. and how tough it is to be hoping for the fairy tale ending and then just being put in the rough situation with a manager you are not click with and you come here and you have the polar opposite of that.

you feel like you had maybe fallen out a little bit of love with the game? no, i think i always love playing and obviously the time last season was at bit frustrating at times. different managers playing different positions, disappointed with the way it ended. the way that ended, but it opened a new chapterfor me here. when he came i think it was his third game or maybe even his second game. i looked out there and he was laughing, he was smiling, he was laughing with another player. i don't see that much in the premiership. i don't see a lot of smiles on players faces during the game. i think that's great. i don't want to underestimate his influence on our team and the relevance of our team right now in the city. we have been very long time and we've created a pretty loyal fan base that we are sending home happy.

and there is a really good buzz about this team and he has certainly been the catalyst for that. plenty of people with seeing, larson and beckham would come over here and in a four—month break they go back, trained with clubs and premier league, played for the clubs back in europe, would that be something you might look at? no. it wouldn't be fair to my children also obviously the people here. going for a few months and then coming back... 123, united. every decision i made was to play for dc and i flew committed to it and... you become a part of great moment of history. we're on the right step in into doing that. hello. we've topped up the sunshine

reserves this week m. more cloud around in the weekend —— then in the weekend. nearly all of us had blue sky today. a relatively mild day, though there was a chilly wind. temperatures have been in the mid teens in iceland today. in germany, around five celsius. this cold wind is heading our way over the next couple of days. by midweek, temperatures will be struggling, less cold by the end of the week. this evening, temperatures dropping away quickly under clear skies, but this area of cloud. the push in from the east overnight. clear is the longest alan cross western areas. along with the cloud, showers

beginning to show up, which will hang around during monday through parts of eastern scotland and england. in the afternoon, a few showers running into east anglia and the south—east. more clout than we've had this weekend. west is best for sunshine. temperatures have come down, so more of us will be in single figures. strongerwind down, so more of us will be in single figures. stronger wind making it feel colder than that as well. more cloud streaming in from the east on tuesday, more showers too. these moved to the west through the day. a few bright sunny spells. over the higher ground, there will be a wintry flavour to the showers. winds could be gusting up to 50 mph for some in the east, so wind chill comes into play. temperatures are coming down a further few degrees, but factoring in the wind, it will feel close to freezing in places. compared to recently, that feels

very different indeed. this is how your week off weather is shaping up — temperatures coming down, feeling much colder in the stronger wind, and as we go into wednesday and thursday, a greater chance of seeing wet weather, longer spells of rain, perhaps sleet or snow over the higher ground. colder, especially in the stronger easterly wind, and wetter for a the stronger easterly wind, and wetterfor a time of the stronger easterly wind, and wetter for a time of too, becoming less cold by the end of the week. that's your forecast. this is bbc news. the headlines... theresa may fights back — saying replacing her as conservative leader wouldn't make the brexit negotiations any easier, and warning of a crucial week ahead. the next seven days are going to be critical. they are about the future of this country. it's about people's jobs, it's about their livelihoods, it's about the future for their children and grandchildren.

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