More from his autobiography My Story So Far, serialised in the Daily Mail:
Stories appeared in Merseyside newspapers which Rooney considered could only have been leaked by the manager and after an angry training ground confrontation, Rooney told Moyes: "I don't want to play for you ever again."
"I would have gone almost anywhere just to get away from David Moyes," said Rooney. "If no-one else had come in I would have gone to Newcastle."
But he says he never felt any jealousy from Everton players. "There was only one person who seemed a bit upset and envious of what was happening to me — and that was Moyes," says Rooney in his autobiography My Story So Far.
"I suppose he expected to get most of the attention himself following a good season when Everton had ended seventh. But when he realised I was getting so much of the limelight I felt he resented it."
When Rooney decided it was time to leave Everton he confided in Moyes that stories in local papers about visits to prostitutes had been getting him down.
He says: "Next day it was in the (Liverpool) Echo. I was absolutely furious as I'd been talking to Moyes in private. In front of all the players, I had a real go at him. 'How did that story get out, except from you?' I raged. 'You're a f****** joke. I don't want to play for you ever again'."
Rooney says that the minute Manchester United made their move "I knew that was the club I wanted to join. But then Everton dropped the bombshell that they would not allow the transfer to go through unless I waived my remaining signing fee.
"I cost them nothing, they got the best part of £30million for me after two years — and they wanted my signing fee."
Other flashpoints included Moyes accusing Rooney of breaking the CD player in his car and making him train on his own — "You've been eating too many f****** McDonalds".