BBC: Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo would not solve Man Utd problems - Rooney

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For all the derision of his intellect, I think he's quite a smart and capable guy. Would make a good manager in another decade's time.
 

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True we have fundamental issues with our team no spine, no philosophy, no clear implementation of a system. Even the best players need an environment to thrive in on the field.
 

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I agree, but Pochettino, elite coaching staff, DoF and/or a transfer committee would. We don’t know how to play football at United. That is embarrassing and no world class players can fix that, but a top class manager could. When you looked at how poorly we performed this season when Ole got the contract it should be apparent that we don’t have a gameplan.

On a side note, Rooney might have a career as a manager or a BT/Sky pundit after his career is over. He also rightly claimed that we should have moved heaven and earth to land Pochettino.
 

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Of course they fecking would.

-------------Dea Gea-----------

Dalot----Lindelof---Smalling--Shaw

-----------McTomminay-----------

--------Pogba------Fred-------

Rashford----------------Messi

-----------Ronaldo--------

900 goals in that team.
 

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I agree, but Pochettino, elite coaching staff, DoF and/or a transfer committee would. We don’t know how to play football at United. That is embarrassing and no world class players can fix that, but a top class manager could. When you looked at how poorly we performed this season when Ole got the contract it should be apparent that we don’t have a gameplan.

On a side note, Rooney might have a career as a manager or a BT/Sky pundit after his career is over. He also rightly claimed that we should have moved heaven and earth to land Pochettino.
:lol: your obsession is admirable
 

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I think if we put those 4 players in the team we'd win the league - so while we know the point he's trying to make, he's utterly wrong.
 

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The club is broken. Replace our entire quad with City's, we wont still win shit. There is something rotten here.
 

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I know we're rubbish but Ronaldo and Messi are two of the best players ever, I think we'd have a pretty clean domestic sweep with those two in the team.
 

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I reckon we could make a title challenge at least with Messi and Ronaldo upfront and Ramos in defense. Pogba to feed them
 

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They'd just been fighting over who should take every penalty, freekick, and who scored most and sexiest goals :lol:
 

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I reckon we could make a title challenge at least with Messi and Ronaldo upfront and Ramos in defense. Pogba to feed them
Surely, we also need:
- young to suddenly become world class and be able to cross
- Shaw to suddenly become world class and be able to attack in general
- Matic to suddenly become fast
- a RM to suddenly appear in the lineup

We can all see where this is going. Not trying to start an argument with you, but Wayne is almost right. We need 2-3 good/very good players and 2-3 good with potential.
Blowing our budget on 2 stars would not help at all. Just thinking we could line up with Dalot/Young at RB next season makes vomit in my mouth.
 

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For all the derision of his intellect, I think he's quite a smart and capable guy. Would make a good manager in another decade's time.
He has a very good football brain. He’s understood loads of different positions and roles over the course of his career and has played all of them to a high level. He doesn’t come across as the smartest guy outside of football related matters, but when it comes to football he has a very very good brain.
 

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Call me crazy but in our current state, doubt we would win a league with all of them. I cant even imagine what kind of circus that would be.
 

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I agree, but Pochettino, elite coaching staff, DoF and/or a transfer committee would. We don’t know how to play football at United. That is embarrassing and no world class players can fix that, but a top class manager could. When you looked at how poorly we performed this season when Ole got the contract it should be apparent that we don’t have a gameplan.

On a side note, Rooney might have a career as a manager or a BT/Sky pundit after his career is over. He also rightly claimed that we should have moved heaven and earth to land Pochettino.
Hodor.
 

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Of course they fecking would.

-------------Dea Gea-----------

Dalot----Lindelof---Smalling--Shaw

-----------McTomminay-----------

--------Pogba------Fred-------

Rashford----------------Messi

-----------Ronaldo--------

900 goals in that team.
Rashford over Bale? Smalling over Ramos? :houllier:
 

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He has a very good football brain. He’s understood loads of different positions and roles over the course of his career and has played all of them to a high level. He doesn’t come across as the smartest guy outside of football related matters, but when it comes to football he has a very very good brain.
Silent domination?
 

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They’d solve a fair few of our problems tbf. Not all of them, obviously:lol:
Wouldn’t be a half bad option at all, Ish. I mean we could even throw one on for Lingard for the last ten when we’re chasing a game.
 

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So you think Ramos alone would have a bigger impact than Messi, Ronaldo and Bale combined?
Maybe I phrased it badly. I meant we'd have more issues defending than we do currently with Bale, Ronaldo, Messi and Ramos in the team.

And separately we'd have no problems going forward scoring lots of goals. So we'd be a better team overall due to the offensive firepower
 

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I think a lot of people are missing the point. Yes they’d be brilliant for a couple of years but what Rooney is saying is that those sort of signings are a short term fix. Better investing in players who aren’t the finished article but will be in the future and could give us 5-10 years, rather than two good seasons.
 
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What? Do you disagree he has a great football brain? Surely not
I’ve no idea? He’s said some common sense stuff that 90% of the Caf would agree with. Not sure that makes him a genius.

Even in Neville’s ”silent domination” speech he pretty much called him stupid if you read between the lines:

Having played with Wayne Rooney for 10 years, having worked with him for England for three or four years, I can say he is a street football player who can chase the ball, wants to be involved and wants to be everywhere on the pitch.

But I think Louis van Gaal must have him on a lead in training, and says to him: ‘That’s not your position, that’s not what you're there to do’.
That he needed to be told very basic stuff by LVG in his 30’s.
 
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I’ve no idea? He’s said some common sense stuff that 90% of the Caf would agree with. Not sure that makes him a genius.

Even in Neville’s ”silent domination” speech he pretty much called him stupid if you read between the lines:



That he needed to be told very basic stuff by LVG in his 30’s.
Fergie said the same in his book. He doesn't take instructions well, and reverts to what he knows
 

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Rooney is an idiot if he doesn’t think we’d p*ss the league with those four in it.

He’s not the brightest and this sort of nonsense reaffirms it.
 

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I’ve no idea? He’s said some common sense stuff that 90% of the Caf would agree with. Not sure that makes him a genius.

Even in Neville’s ”silent domination” speech he pretty much called him stupid if you read between the lines:



That he needed to be told very basic stuff by LVG in his 30’s.
That's not really how Neville meant it :lol: That's taking reading between the lines to a ridiculous level
 

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Rooney is an idiot if he doesn’t think we’d p*ss the league with those four in it.

He’s not the brightest and this sort of nonsense reaffirms it.
:lol: That’s true. It maybe hard to win CL, but the League with those attacking GOATS? We were 2nd with Lukaku, Rashford, Martial, and Lingard in attack.
 

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That's not really how Neville meant it :lol: That's taking reading between the lines to a ridiculous level
Not in a malicious way, but in a ”look how well the adorable ball chaser is behaving under LVG, that’s a good boy, I’m so proud of him for following instructions for once in his life” kind of way.

“Everyone who left Old Trafford may have said: ‘Didn’t see much of Rooney today,’ but I think Louis van Gaal would have loved that performance. I would think Louis van Gaal will have watched that game back and might think that was Rooney’s best performance for Manchester United under him.”
It sounds as though he’s talking about a 12 year old and not a 30 year old.
 
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