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Wayne Rooney - DC United player
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White Pele! I wish we had a player like him in our team. Would make such a difference. Legend.
What is your problem? There is nothing wrong with what he posted. A prime Rooney would change our team completely, he posted it in thread about Rooney after he scored a great goal. What is the point of posting shit replies like yours is the question.
For a moment it looked like he was being congratulated by a team mate called Brilliant.
And this is surprising? We are nowhere near the side we were when he joined us.
Yup, you're right.
If only we had a prime Best, Charlton and Law up front, all our problems would be solved. Stick a prime Bruce and Pallister at CB in the mix and we'd be cruising.
Can you now see what a pointless and ridiculous statement it is?
Everton goal 1st because of how he hit it.
DC United goal 2nd because of the hop he took just before booting it.
United goal 3rd.
All bangers. I got wind of it last night. People were loving it. Favorite line from Twitter was some guy saying he scored it simply because he didn't feel like running past the center circle.
DC United goal 2nd because of the hop he took just before booting it.
United goal 3rd.
All bangers. I got wind of it last night. People were loving it. Favorite line from Twitter was some guy saying he scored it simply because he didn't feel like running past the center circle.
I honestly did not mean that as an insult (although I see how it could be interpreted as such). I still adore the man. And his many chip attempts (some of which went in)!
The full game of that is on YouTube.
One of the very, very rare times Ronaldo, Rooney, Tevez and Berbatov were all on the pitch together for us.
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What a player. What an underrated player as well. They don't make 'em like Wazza anymore. A raging bull he was.
What a player he was. So talented and determined, he could play any position to a good level. Excellent upfront when Ronaldo left, praticised his heading in anticipation of playing upfront and scored a ridiculous amount of headed goals. Played on the wing at times when Ronaldo was here, and did very well. Obviously as a number 10, he was brilliant too.
He seemed to lose some explosiveness that he had when he was a youngster and became a more refined player in his prime. When he burst on to the scene at Euro 2004, he was extremely powerful and loved to run at defenders because they couldn't deal with his power. As time went out, and he picked up a few more injuries, he stopped running at defenders and committing them 1 v 1.
The main thing that stopped him from being the very best in the world at any time was his first touch and ability to keep the ball in tight situations. For a world class player, this often let him down. If he had 2 players round him in the middle of the park with his back to goal, he would often give it way.
He seemed to lose some explosiveness that he had when he was a youngster and became a more refined player in his prime. When he burst on to the scene at Euro 2004, he was extremely powerful and loved to run at defenders because they couldn't deal with his power. As time went out, and he picked up a few more injuries, he stopped running at defenders and committing them 1 v 1.
The main thing that stopped him from being the very best in the world at any time was his first touch and ability to keep the ball in tight situations. For a world class player, this often let him down. If he had 2 players round him in the middle of the park with his back to goal, he would often give it way.
What a player he was here. His form in the post fergie years built up a lot of animosity it seems but a peak Rooney would transform our current side in a way few past players could. He really was top quality
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I said it’s said. Why would it be surprising.
Nice try though. Guess we’re both into pointing out the obvious.
I apologise then. I remember when Rooney was at United. A lot of fans couldn't wait to critisize him, which was a surprise given what he achieved at the club.
It's such a brilliant way for him to end his career.
After a few seasons of struggling at United and Everton, we're at the end of the movie. He's at DC Unites, obviously loving life and has single handedly transformed that club into serious contenders to win the MLS.
After a few seasons of struggling at United and Everton, we're at the end of the movie. He's at DC Unites, obviously loving life and has single handedly transformed that club into serious contenders to win the MLS.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/man-utd-hero-wayne-rooneys-17277960
It should be physically impossible for a United fan to read these quotes by Rooney and not role their eyes.
It should be physically impossible for a United fan to read these quotes by Rooney and not role their eyes.
Why? Tactics were never SAF's biggest strength and he was talking about tactics here. Best coach, not best manager.
I agree that tactics were not Ferguson's biggest strength but Van Gaal's tactics when he was United manager were shambolic for the most part.
To be fair, when Sir Alex named the world class players he had managed, he didn’t mention Rooney. Scholes, Giggs, Ronaldo and Cantona were the players he chose.
Predictable because he's the only manager who kept playing him despite his crap performance and btw I don't think that's the first time he says this.
LVG sold our entire attack to give Rooney a starting position up front and then shifted him to midfield to keep him playing for the sake of it and fecked up the team.
So yeah I'm not surprised at all.
And LVG tactics were beyond crap here.
To be honest, our tactics have been crap ever since we sold Ronaldo! Games were boring even under SAF his last few years.
I would say LVG is probably a better coach, but not manager! 2 completely different things. SAF bought in Quireoz and Mulensteen for tactical reasons
Towards the end of Rooney's Utd career, he was widely slammed for joining a group of fans on the piss while on England duty. He was then caught drink driving a car that wasn't his while heading back to some birds gaf, utterly slaughtered out of his mind drunk.
Fergie would have known Rooney was losing the hunger and focus required to remain at the top. Rooney would have felt he deserved more respect from the boss for the sacrafices he had made for many years in the past, tohat guided Utd to many trophies.
That was the genius of Fergie. Didn't matter if you were Maradona or Messi who'd been responsible for so many trophies in the past. As soon as you got into the comfort zone thinking you could give just 80% and still get picked, based on the name on the back of your shirt, you'd be out the door in a blink.
Fergie would have known Rooney was losing the hunger and focus required to remain at the top. Rooney would have felt he deserved more respect from the boss for the sacrafices he had made for many years in the past, tohat guided Utd to many trophies.
That was the genius of Fergie. Didn't matter if you were Maradona or Messi who'd been responsible for so many trophies in the past. As soon as you got into the comfort zone thinking you could give just 80% and still get picked, based on the name on the back of your shirt, you'd be out the door in a blink.
And Rooney played here before Ronaldo was sold, point?
Any tactic SAF applied here was far better than anything LVG applied here it's honestly beyond discussion.
“My captain shall always play”
Maybe he's just mad for something at SAF.
Clearly all those grannies have affected his judgement
Rooney didnt have a lot of different types of managers. Van Gaal was the only possession based manager he had, so i am not surprised. He is pretty different to your average manager, so you can learn a lot from him than your usual PL managers in the past.
He said "coach" not "manager". LvG was on the training ground ,SAF left the sessions to the other coaches. He is the manager not the coach. No big deal here's.
Exactly. Rooney has said many times that he believes Ferguson is the greatest manager of all time. Nothing to see here
This.
Ofcourse. You would think people know what's the difference between coach and manager instead of getting emotional for no reason.
miss him so much, my favourite player
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...actically-Sir-Alex-Ferguson-Old-Trafford.html
Just as I said that's not the first time he said this crap about LVG being the best manager he worked with :
Just as I said that's not the first time he said this crap about LVG being the best manager he worked with :
LVG at United was better tactically than the SAF's United Rooney played in, that's I have seen it all I guess.
Just when I thought I like him again.
Point? Giggs, Neville, Scholes, we're much younger and were world class. So any system we played would have worked! After Ronaldo was sold SAF signed complete dross like Valencia, Obertan, Owen, Bebe, Buttner etc.
SAF adapted to football by employing specialists in modern football as assistants and coaches.
Yes, the tactics deployed by LVG were boring and required a lot of patience. But when they did get his philosophy, we played arguably better football than we have served up in 10 years, even in the SAF era when he had employed Phelan as assistant. Those 5 games where we played teams off the pitch like Barca did to us.
SAF was taught a lesson three times of modern day football by Barcelona twice and once by Bilbao, which most top managers now implement.
SAF was the master of the counter attack, nobody can beat him at that! But I seriously don't think he could thrive in the modern day tactics and style. LVG is probably better equipped for modern day football than SAF.
People think that the transfer strategy Ole has with buying young English talent is the best way forward, when in reality we will completely lack technique and guile on the ball, and we will rely heavily on pace which in modern day football is easy to counteract.
And to add to your point, SAF had been at Utd 26 years, LVG was here 2.5 years.