At least his transfer value is higher than what it was.
He's off in the summer I bet.
MERGED: Rooney signs new contract!
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He's off in the summer I bet.
just jumped on the intranet and saw the news that rooney's signed a new deal. great news!
Actually if he plays great from now on, I'll be really pissed off with him for playing badly because he was fecking around over his contract. I'll forgive him, but I won't forget.
Just wished Gill shut up , he make himself look even more like an idiot.....
Manchester United chief executive David Gill believes Wayne Rooney signing a new deal sends a determined message to the club's detractors.
The final chapter in a story which will be remembered for a long time by those who witnessed it, let alone those at the centre, came when Rooney signed a five-year contract extension with the Barclays Premier League club.
It commits Rooney to United until 2015 and makes him the highest-paid player in the club's history, with a new wage believed to be in the region of £150,000 a week.
The player had raised questions about United's ambition, with news he was looking for another club alerting Europe's big teams.
However, his U-turn prompted Gill to say: "It's a great day for the club. To those who say Manchester United cannot compete any more, we can - and we will continue to."
He added on Sky Sports News: "We are here to make sure we've got a great team and do what we do off the field by investing in the team and the facilities here.
"I fully understand that in order to have results off the pitch we need a great team on it.
"We've been challenging at the top of the table for years and intend being there for many years to come."
On Rooney, who is out for around three weeks with an ankle injury, Gill added: "By and large everyone realises he is a great player.
"I'm convinced he'll get back to that form as soon as he's fit and back on the pitch."
Manchester United chief executive David Gill believes Wayne Rooney signing a new deal sends a determined message to the club's detractors.
The final chapter in a story which will be remembered for a long time by those who witnessed it, let alone those at the centre, came when Rooney signed a five-year contract extension with the Barclays Premier League club.
It commits Rooney to United until 2015 and makes him the highest-paid player in the club's history, with a new wage believed to be in the region of £150,000 a week.
The player had raised questions about United's ambition, with news he was looking for another club alerting Europe's big teams.
However, his U-turn prompted Gill to say: "It's a great day for the club. To those who say Manchester United cannot compete any more, we can - and we will continue to."
He added on Sky Sports News: "We are here to make sure we've got a great team and do what we do off the field by investing in the team and the facilities here.
"I fully understand that in order to have results off the pitch we need a great team on it.
"We've been challenging at the top of the table for years and intend being there for many years to come."
On Rooney, who is out for around three weeks with an ankle injury, Gill added: "By and large everyone realises he is a great player.
"I'm convinced he'll get back to that form as soon as he's fit and back on the pitch."
I felt sick when I heard, he's burnt his bridges here and should be packed off, instead he's got 5 more years, before this he was a disgrace that could be forgiven for his talent and loyalty. Now he's just a disgrace.
We don't know the figure do we?
You're right. Something happened to make him change his mind. Max Clifford was on Sky News earlier saying that all the carefully planned PR to rebuild Rooneys image had gone down the pan this week. Apparently Rooney's had another spread in OK magazine showing off his beautiful home and family. I'm beginning to think that Coleen is as big a money grabber as him.
If he was to leave in the summer it would be a nightmare of a transfer window. The optimisits would be foaming at the mouth of a new signing. I don't think we'd hear the last of 'who is fergie going to sign' and it would be distracting to the start of our season. IMO if he wants to go he should do the damage now and piss off while it's out in the open but he obviously hasn't.
You're right, it was a good interview by David Gill.
A lot? Does he get called a cnut by most of us? Did he not get cheered by a stuffed Old Trafford for his testimonial?
And he lost his job but that was an interview and rather more explicit. That's not the same as Rooney fearing for our future and feeling he might have to provoke a response out of the club or to ensure a future at a club that's set to have a shot at the major trophies.
We're all skeptical about a feckload of elements regarding our future. Who takes over for Scholes or Giggs in terms of midfield creativity, for one... It isn't a big thing if Rooney, who is living in the midst of all this as opposed to us, started getting a bit uncertain about our trajectory.
The question is - who tapped Rooney up in the first place. I reckon it was Chelsea and Terry now has a red face.
That makes no sense at all. He's signed a contract because he is here for at least the next three seasons.
I think most are pissed off with him regardless. I just feel he needs to show why on earth he's worth all this.. What makes him so special etc. He's been demanding big things this week to agree to play for United, he needs to show he has the right to ask those questions. He's got A LOT to prove in the months and seasons to come imo
When the dust from this settles, I expect we'll all realise that this is remarkably similar to dramas that Keane, Cantona & Ferdinand put us through in the past.
Rooneys a naive lad who handled a situation stupidly, and was probably badly advised. Now he has signed a contract, he has my full support just the same as before.
No. When negotiating, both sides need to show they are willing to make sacrifices. Signing a new contract was a small sacrifice for Wayne. Selling him to the club he wants to go to is a sacrifice for us. With Wayne willing to sign the deal, dont be surprised when he goes to a club none of us want to see him play for.
all i know is, after the Ronaldo saga ( the first one ) I was delighted he was staying, I'm not sure what I'm feeling now, I'm just too mad with Rooney for putting us all in this situation - for whatever reasons he had
I think that's a very veeery optimistic view, but fair enough I suppose I wish I could think that.
I don't though. Because threatening to leave 2 months into a new season as soon as you find out about it is not something someone who's at all concerned about the club would do IMO.
It could be for many reasons, SAF felt that if he signs a contract it will not cause mass unrest in the squad, he leaves with our blessing/on our terms...
it's not the same at all!
So people on here just want to continue looking like fools.
Read the Rooney statement again. At what point does he say "I want to leave"? Fact is, he doesn't. He says he wouldn't renew his contact due to the result of a meeting with David Gill regarding the clubs future. None of us know what that meeting was about, was it to do with money? was it to do with Sir Alex? Was it to do with ambition? No one knows. Instead, alot of you choose to make your own stories up.
Watch Rooney's interview. The key part of it was he felt he had no where to go until Sir Alex said the door was open. Does that sound like a player who desperately wants out of the club? No, it doesn't. Those words from Sir Alex have been the key to all of this.
My guess is Rooney and Sir Alex had had a fall out stemming from the revelations about Wayne's private life. Their relationship has deteriorated and Rooney, who looks at Sir Alex as a "father figure", has taken the knock. Add that to on going contract negotiations (which may I add should have been sorted a while ago), poor form, constant media attention, marriage problems, persistent injuries and the presence of Paul Stretford on his shoulder, things have spiraled out of control.
I imagine there are worries around the playing staff about the Glazers. I mean us fans are scared enough. The G&G campaign has been in full flow and every other week the newspapers print how the club is in free fall and things are falling apart. Is Rooney wrong to be concerned about this? No, he isn't. Not one bit. The fans want answers and so do the players. You can't argue with that surely.
A player, who is on record from his own mouth, stating he wants a life contract, he wants to emulate Ryan Giggs and Bobby Charlton, he couldn't play for another club suddenly doesn't change their mind.
Again, we don't know everything there is to know about this fiasco. I think United have questions to answer, as do Rooney and Stretford. One thing I will say, is I won't stand and boo Rooney as who am I, without knowing whats gone on, to do that?
No one knows what is in his new contract when it comes to money, so why do you all persist in listening to the very media sources that told us Rooney would be gone in January? Will some of you not learn? Clearly not.
Yes, this whole thing has been a fiasco and yes I have lost some respect for Wayne Rooney as a result of it, but the situation is far from unattainable in my eyes. There was no transfer request nor was there any holding the club to ransom. Fergie has handled this brilliantly, and if he has decided Wayne should be able to stay and we as a club should move on, who am I, or any of you, to question him.
After all, what do we really know?
Read the Rooney statement again. At what point does he say "I want to leave"? Fact is, he doesn't. He says he wouldn't renew his contact due to the result of a meeting with David Gill regarding the clubs future. None of us know what that meeting was about, was it to do with money? was it to do with Sir Alex? Was it to do with ambition? No one knows. Instead, alot of you choose to make your own stories up.
Watch Rooney's interview. The key part of it was he felt he had no where to go until Sir Alex said the door was open. Does that sound like a player who desperately wants out of the club? No, it doesn't. Those words from Sir Alex have been the key to all of this.
My guess is Rooney and Sir Alex had had a fall out stemming from the revelations about Wayne's private life. Their relationship has deteriorated and Rooney, who looks at Sir Alex as a "father figure", has taken the knock. Add that to on going contract negotiations (which may I add should have been sorted a while ago), poor form, constant media attention, marriage problems, persistent injuries and the presence of Paul Stretford on his shoulder, things have spiraled out of control.
I imagine there are worries around the playing staff about the Glazers. I mean us fans are scared enough. The G&G campaign has been in full flow and every other week the newspapers print how the club is in free fall and things are falling apart. Is Rooney wrong to be concerned about this? No, he isn't. Not one bit. The fans want answers and so do the players. You can't argue with that surely.
A player, who is on record from his own mouth, stating he wants a life contract, he wants to emulate Ryan Giggs and Bobby Charlton, he couldn't play for another club suddenly doesn't change their mind.
Again, we don't know everything there is to know about this fiasco. I think United have questions to answer, as do Rooney and Stretford. One thing I will say, is I won't stand and boo Rooney as who am I, without knowing whats gone on, to do that?
No one knows what is in his new contract when it comes to money, so why do you all persist in listening to the very media sources that told us Rooney would be gone in January? Will some of you not learn? Clearly not.
Yes, this whole thing has been a fiasco and yes I have lost some respect for Wayne Rooney as a result of it, but the situation is far from unattainable in my eyes. There was no transfer request nor was there any holding the club to ransom. Fergie has handled this brilliantly, and if he has decided Wayne should be able to stay and we as a club should move on, who am I, or any of you, to question him.
After all, what do we really know?
Oh ffs - some of this is getting a bit ridiculous now. It's like a Drama Queen Contest. "I can do outraged indignation better than you! You have no IDEA how sick to the stomach I am here!"
Let's get it straight. We were fuming with Rooney the other day mostly because we thought he had received a massive offer from City and was going to take it and was using some shit excuse to cover up his greed.
When clubs offer players a new deal, they are not legally bound to sign it. All players probably seek some kind of assurances or even just re-assurance before committing the next five years of their life.
Rooney had reservations and let us be honest - we can understand those reservations.
He didn't call his team-mates shit. He didn't say Fergie is clueless.
He was just worried about the future of the club and wanted certain assurances from the club. He says he didn't get them initially.
Surely now though, the fact that he HASN'T gone to City for that fabled £300k/week deal proves his loyalty to United? If that offer ever was on the table then he's turned it down for a lesser offer by all accounts.
To be honest, I might be forgetting a certain event in the timeline here but wasn't it Fergie who chose to air this in public and not Rooney? Rooney's statement was in response to Fergie's.
The whole thing is a mess but I don't see what Rooney has done which is "completely unforgivable" given this latest turn of events.
Let's get it straight. We were fuming with Rooney the other day mostly because we thought he had received a massive offer from City and was going to take it and was using some shit excuse to cover up his greed.
When clubs offer players a new deal, they are not legally bound to sign it. All players probably seek some kind of assurances or even just re-assurance before committing the next five years of their life.
Rooney had reservations and let us be honest - we can understand those reservations.
He didn't call his team-mates shit. He didn't say Fergie is clueless.
He was just worried about the future of the club and wanted certain assurances from the club. He says he didn't get them initially.
Surely now though, the fact that he HASN'T gone to City for that fabled £300k/week deal proves his loyalty to United? If that offer ever was on the table then he's turned it down for a lesser offer by all accounts.
To be honest, I might be forgetting a certain event in the timeline here but wasn't it Fergie who chose to air this in public and not Rooney? Rooney's statement was in response to Fergie's.
The whole thing is a mess but I don't see what Rooney has done which is "completely unforgivable" given this latest turn of events.
exactly right
and yet he did!
This is a huge victory for Manchester United, and especially for our manager!
We come out on top on after that our top player questioned our future ambition's. In a emotional pressconference, in front of the whole footballs world, Sir Alex Ferguson explained to everyone about this club's value's.
1. David Gill didn't have to explain himself in public.
2. Wayne Rooney signed a new contract, quite close to the original one.
3. The football world, especially all top players around the world know no that we are back in business again. (No it's up to the owner to deliver)
4. We gain sympathy and nobody think's we acted wrong.
Regarding Wayne Rooney. He will come back, sooner or later, to normal. In mars april this will be history.
The big looser is Paul Streetford. Yes he earned a lot of money but he loosed every uns of credibility and he look like a twat nobody like.
We come out on top on after that our top player questioned our future ambition's. In a emotional pressconference, in front of the whole footballs world, Sir Alex Ferguson explained to everyone about this club's value's.
1. David Gill didn't have to explain himself in public.
2. Wayne Rooney signed a new contract, quite close to the original one.
3. The football world, especially all top players around the world know no that we are back in business again. (No it's up to the owner to deliver)
4. We gain sympathy and nobody think's we acted wrong.
Regarding Wayne Rooney. He will come back, sooner or later, to normal. In mars april this will be history.
The big looser is Paul Streetford. Yes he earned a lot of money but he loosed every uns of credibility and he look like a twat nobody like.
no - I was fuming with him because he said he wasn't going to sign another contract!
Makes a lot of sense that. (More sense than is coming from Rooney that's for sure).
I don't think he expected the backlash against him that came from this fiasco, none of us did. Probably not the outcome he was counting on at all. Must have really shocked him.
David Gill is actually presenting this as proof we can still compete with the best
Yay, we've signed a player........that we erm...already had.
See Uncle Malc is prepared to invest.
What a tosser
Yay, we've signed a player........that we erm...already had.
See Uncle Malc is prepared to invest.
What a tosser
In a week where really not a lot has happened at Manchester United, so much has actually happened.
An odd saying I guess but it perfectly sums up the situation.
There are so, so many different ways to look at this, has it been a ploy to get the Glazers to invest some cash, has it been a cover up to enable him to move on still in the summer, has it genuinely been a case of Rooney realising just what he was close to giving up, have Manchester United caved to player pressure.
Who's the winner in all of this and are there any losers?
My head hurts just thinking about it if i'm honest and it's been one hell of a week, I don't think I can think of any other situation sport wise that has brought about such reaction and stirred such emotion.
How will the fans react to Rooney? Well there's an interesting one. I was so annoyed with him and then there was a sense of relief on hearing he'd signed the deal. It's obvious really that you'd want a player like wayne Rooney playing for you rather than against you so on a playing side it's great news. there will be fans though who are still upset by it all, but football fans can indeed be fickle and time as they say is a healer, him being 'injured' now for 3 weeks is convenient and what better timing for him than coming back to play in a Manchester derby! Scoring the winner in that would get the majority back on side.
I'm as fickle as they come I guess because i'm made up he has signed, yes I wanted him booted out of the club 8 hours ago and didn't want to see him in a United shirt again but football, sport in general does this to people.
Welcome back Wayne, all is forgotten
An odd saying I guess but it perfectly sums up the situation.
There are so, so many different ways to look at this, has it been a ploy to get the Glazers to invest some cash, has it been a cover up to enable him to move on still in the summer, has it genuinely been a case of Rooney realising just what he was close to giving up, have Manchester United caved to player pressure.
Who's the winner in all of this and are there any losers?
My head hurts just thinking about it if i'm honest and it's been one hell of a week, I don't think I can think of any other situation sport wise that has brought about such reaction and stirred such emotion.
How will the fans react to Rooney? Well there's an interesting one. I was so annoyed with him and then there was a sense of relief on hearing he'd signed the deal. It's obvious really that you'd want a player like wayne Rooney playing for you rather than against you so on a playing side it's great news. there will be fans though who are still upset by it all, but football fans can indeed be fickle and time as they say is a healer, him being 'injured' now for 3 weeks is convenient and what better timing for him than coming back to play in a Manchester derby! Scoring the winner in that would get the majority back on side.
I'm as fickle as they come I guess because i'm made up he has signed, yes I wanted him booted out of the club 8 hours ago and didn't want to see him in a United shirt again but football, sport in general does this to people.
Welcome back Wayne, all is forgotten
Well yes, he's clearly thick. I'm not sure anyone can dispute that.
this does make more sense - Holloway's rant in particular was marvellous.
Almost everyone - to a man - was unified AGAINST Rooney, maybe he ( and the odious Stretford ) totally underestimated feelings against him
but can we forgive him?
( don't think I can - but ask me in 7 months )
( don't think I can - but ask me in 7 months )
i feel weirdthis...pretty much!
Rooney's people started it by going to the press at the weekend.
You must of missed the point in the rest of the post. I don't think he ever wanted to leave United, but for what ever reason, ie falling out with his "father figure" Sir Alex, he felt there was no where else to go. Fergie offered an olive branch. Next day he signs up.
Think about it.
Meaning what actually happened was a complete cave-in by them, seeing as we always said we'd make him the highest paid player in England - and we've essentially done that now (just about, not quite!).
Well in his statement he didnt directly say he wanted to leave but when you say in it you arent going to sign a new contract and question the ambition of the club by asking for "assurances about the continued ability of the club to attract the top players in the world" it pretty much points to a guy who wants out.
I think it's because with Ronaldo we always knew deep down that he was going to leave at some point & so him staying was a bonus really.
With Rooney we never ever thought it was possible and so he shattered our expectations of him.
Maybe we just put him too high on the pedestal in the 1st place but needless to say my expectations of him are lower now and he won't ever get the same support I gave him previously.
well my head hurts!
i did notice that he was very fulsome with his praise of Fergie , yes