The glitzy world of Wayne and Coleen Rooney

Ponder, for a moment, being so stupendously wealthy that you could afford to dispatch an assistant, at a cost of £2,622 (Dh15,063), to New York to pick up some jewellery.

How about spending nearly £19,000 on a four-day break in Ibiza? Or splurging £2,525 to hear Westlife play, just to ensure that they perform at your wedding?

The Manchester Mercantile Court has been hearing all about the money earned by Manchester United player Wayne Rooney and his wife, Coleen, and what they have chosen to spend it on. The couple are accused of holding back £4.3 million from their former management company, and will appear next week to give their version of events.

Already, we have heard with some certainty in documents filed by their former managers that the pair comfortably make more than £8 million a year.

So, what do they spend it all on? With the help of court revelations, we peer into Wayne's World and find a riot of spending on everything from £16.50 chest waxes for Wayne, to "chicken nugget sized" diamonds for Coleen.

It is suggested that last year, Wayne managed to spend almost £5 million.

Cash for clan

When he was 20 years old, Wayne bought a home in West Derby for his parents — their council house in Toxteth had been burgled and nails had been driven through the tyres of the family car.

At a cost of around £400,000, he provided Wayne senior and Jeanette with a new four-bedroom house on a private estate. Coleen's parents, Tony and Colette, live in the £1 million house in Formby which was Wayne and Coleen's first home together.

Underlings

Coleen has a personal assistant and a publicist. They also hire staff as and when they need them there were two stylists and a tailor at their wedding, and Coleen has had a personal trainer in the past. One of their major expenses is paying their management company. Court documents show that, for instance, out of the £760,000 Rooney receives every six months for image rights, £152,000 goes to his agent.

How much they make

Rooney, 24, the talisman of the Manchester United team, is formidably well-rewarded. He earns £90,000 a week from his club salary alone (£4.68 million a year). He also gets £1.52 million a year for his image rights.

Then there's the £118,689 he gets every six months from computer games firm EA for promoting its Fifa football game. He has made £3.5 million from a 12-year, five-book contract, which included his autobiography, and £600,000 from a four-year deal to endorse Coca-Cola.

Coleen, 23, earned £13,000 per episode of her Real Women show for ITV and £41,667 a month from OK! magazine for her column. She received £50,000 in royalties from her first two books about her style and her life so far, and £283,334 for an eight-book deal.

She is on a break from her TV show (below) and on maternity leave from the OK! column.

Having a ball

The Rooneys certainly like a party. Their lavish wedding in Portofino, Italy, in summer 2008 cost up to £5 million although this sum was considerably defrayed by inviting a feelgood magazine to record the event, which netted the couple £2.5 million.

Wayne generously put £10,000 behind the bar on the occasion of Coleen's 18th birthday, which ended in a brawl between the well-refreshed guests.

Her 21st passed off without incident, but cost around £500,000.

Shopping 'til he drops

Wayne loves a pair of tatty Marks & Spencer slippers he has had for years. He can sometimes be seen wearing them when he arrives at Manchester United's Carrington training ground in his £120,000 Bentley.

He does twice-yearly shopping at a Liverpool boutique, where he will spend several thousand pounds in one go, often on luxury menswear brand Christian Audigier, but he favours Nike sportswear mostly. His T90 football boots, which cost £130 a pair, are a freebie.

Coleen's love of fashion is well documented. She had a clear-out about a year ago and gave away hundreds of items by Missoni, Pucci and Chloe.

But she says she cannot, or will not, work out how many pairs of shoes and handbags she has. "I don't think I'd want to count," she says. "Shoes and handbags are my favourite things."

Last Valentine's Day, Wayne bought her a black Chanel bag; this year she has her eye on the new Coco Cocoon bags — the large tote costs £5,500.

Wayne's wheels

The one thing on which Wayne loves to spend money is cars. When he made his England debut, he could not yet drive and was ferried to training by his father, Wayne senior, in a blue Ford Galaxy.

He bought a Lamborghini Gallardo for £200,000 in 2007, only to trade up for a P640 after Rio Ferdinand teased him about his "cheap" car.

He had a Mercedes a convertible worth £149,000 and an Aston Martin Vanquish, plus a Cadillac Escalade and a Chrysler. He also bought a Hummer on a whim when everyone else in the training ground had them. More recently, he bought an Audi TT Roadster and a 4x4 BMW.

He picked up a new Range Rover, with a 5.7-litre engine, in November last year. He is also often seen driving his Bentley. His favourite car is his £160,000 Aston Martin DBS (below), as seen in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace. In all, he has probably spent about £1 million on cars.

Inside Rooney Towers

The family lives in an enormous mansion, worth £4.5 million, built to their specifications. Known as Rooney Towers, the house that Roo built has seven flatscreen televisions.

Rooney Towers has a home cinema, gym, indoor pool, hot tub, hair salon and spray-tanning booth. There are his-and-hers sinks and loos and a dressing room that Coleen has already grown out of she also has clothes rails in one of the spare bedrooms.

The kitchen is themed to look like an American diner. Coleen recently bought a white leather sofa that she had customised with Swarovski crystals at a cost of £10,000.

Coleen's sparklers

Wayne presented Coleen with a £25,000 diamond ring from Tiffany for her 18th birthday. She also got a £20,000 Rolex watch and a £10,000 Jacob & Co watch.

For her 21st birthday, she got a £200,000 10-carat yellow diamond ring from Chopard. Her most spectacular piece is the bespoke Jacob & Co wedding ring (above), said to be worth close to £350,000. It is a band encrusted with more than 50 diamonds, topped off with a solitary rock that one gobsmacked observer likened to a chicken nugget in dimension. Wayne has a wedding ring which matches, apart from the rock. It is this jewellery that they sent the assistant to pick up in New York, and the price for both is thought to be around £450,000.

Chest waxes

Coleen remains loyal to the Barbara Daley salon in Liverpool.

The salon looks after her hair colour every six weeks, for £55, and also does her highlights, for £88. She is in there often for a shampoo and finish — cost £30.

Wayne has recently been getting his hair cut by Coleen's mother. Every now and then he goes to the fashionable Liverpool salon Hooka for a cut. They have waxed his chest before, too, for £16.50.