Football Soccer - Premier League - Everton vs Stoke City - Liverpool, Britain - August 12, 2017 Everton's Wayne Rooney applauds fans after the match REUTERS/Andrew Yates
LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) - Everton manager Ronald Koeman said Wayne Rooney, who scored on his return to the club in the 1-0 win over Stoke on Saturday, was far from a spent force and showed exactly why he was the right signing for the club.
Rooney's move back to his boyhood club, after 13 successful years at Manchester United, divided opinion between those who viewed it as a welcome romantic return and those who felt he was not the right player for Koeman's new-look side.
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