Does Rooney deserve a statue?
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There's a very good chance his record will never be broken, considering how long it took to break Sir Bobby's and how far anyone else is off from breaking it right now.
A statue is a big question. I'm not sure he's there yet. His career has been nothing but amazing and the record is THE record no matter how you put it.
It's a really tough one. I'm not sure Giggs deserves a statue to be honest. SAF was simple.
I do believe he should be on a picture among the really big names we've had tough. Cantona, Ronaldo, Charlton, Rooney, Giggs, etc etc.
It's a really tough one. I'm not sure Giggs deserves a statue to be honest. SAF was simple.
I do believe he should be on a picture among the really big names we've had tough. Cantona, Ronaldo, Charlton, Rooney, Giggs, etc etc.
He's so bloody slow he might as well be considered one. 
I'd like the CO92 and Ronaldo & Rooney (together) to have ones. I think our three European Cup winning teams deserve special recognition.
As a Utd legend yes he does but then by that token so would (in no particular order) Keane, Cantona, Robson, Giggs, Beckham, Edwards etc. Its not by chance that we have the Holy Trinity outside OT. Of all the players to wear the clubs colours Charlton, Law and Best really were special. Its not only that the three of them were wonderful footballers. What cannot be forgotten or ignored is the 'time' and 'circumstances' of the age.
I suppose there are not many of us on this board that actually were honoured enough to see them play at the height of their powers. To think only 5 years after the devastation of Munich we were marching out at Wembley against Leicester for the FA cup. Busby miraculously and Charlton having survived that crash and with a 23 year old Scottish midget (in todays terms) of a centre forward called Law who we had bought for the incredible sum of £100,000 IIRC from Turin. The following year this good looking Best lad from Belfast broke into the first eleven. Bloody heck what he could do with a football and at pace as well. Forward to 64/65 and we were again league champions. Who could possibly have dreamed it. In fact it was a dream. 7 years after the death of what could have been one of the best teams the world had ever seen and we were back on top. OK maybe not of the world but certainly on top of English football. And at the heart of that side.....Best, Law and Charlton. To top it all Law came away with the Ballon dOr in 64. In 66 Charlton helped England lift the World Cup and won the Ballon dOr himself. 66/67 and again we were champions of England with the three of them at the heart of the side.
Then who could forget Wembley 29th May 68 when Busby lifted the European Cup. 10 years after being the first English side ever to venture into Europe. The memories that flooded back for us fans. God knows how bitter sweet it must have been for Busby, Charlton and some of the other survivors let alone the relatives of those that died. Then Best went and lifted the 68 Ballon d'Or.
To think as well that there have only been 6 British winners of the Ballon dOr. The others being Stanley Matthews, Kevin Keegan (twice) and Michael Owen. With our three coming along at the same time what are the odds of that ever happening again. Amazing, truly amazing.
So that holy trinity statue is very very special and whilst players will come and go at OT who will undoubtedly light it up during their tenure long may the three it honours stand apart.
All of course IMHO.
I suppose there are not many of us on this board that actually were honoured enough to see them play at the height of their powers. To think only 5 years after the devastation of Munich we were marching out at Wembley against Leicester for the FA cup. Busby miraculously and Charlton having survived that crash and with a 23 year old Scottish midget (in todays terms) of a centre forward called Law who we had bought for the incredible sum of £100,000 IIRC from Turin. The following year this good looking Best lad from Belfast broke into the first eleven. Bloody heck what he could do with a football and at pace as well. Forward to 64/65 and we were again league champions. Who could possibly have dreamed it. In fact it was a dream. 7 years after the death of what could have been one of the best teams the world had ever seen and we were back on top. OK maybe not of the world but certainly on top of English football. And at the heart of that side.....Best, Law and Charlton. To top it all Law came away with the Ballon dOr in 64. In 66 Charlton helped England lift the World Cup and won the Ballon dOr himself. 66/67 and again we were champions of England with the three of them at the heart of the side.
Then who could forget Wembley 29th May 68 when Busby lifted the European Cup. 10 years after being the first English side ever to venture into Europe. The memories that flooded back for us fans. God knows how bitter sweet it must have been for Busby, Charlton and some of the other survivors let alone the relatives of those that died. Then Best went and lifted the 68 Ballon d'Or.
To think as well that there have only been 6 British winners of the Ballon dOr. The others being Stanley Matthews, Kevin Keegan (twice) and Michael Owen. With our three coming along at the same time what are the odds of that ever happening again. Amazing, truly amazing.
So that holy trinity statue is very very special and whilst players will come and go at OT who will undoubtedly light it up during their tenure long may the three it honours stand apart.
All of course IMHO.
Great post! My view is that any more statues would dilute the importance of the ones already standing.
I don't think so, there are a lot of prerequisites for something that big and I don't think he's nearly the most deserving.
Eric Cantona should get a statue outside Old Trafford. Cant stress how popular he was/is with those who were around for the spark he lit at Old Trafford. And to the players who played with him as well as the manager. Very rare that fans, your fellow players and the manager bows down and pretty much calls you the man, like they did with Eric.
True, but it's a matter of principle as far as I'm concerned. Records are there to be broken. Rashford should be aspiring to break it, for example.
Thats all speculation though mate, it's fine to hold an opinion based on that but you can't say for definite that Ferguson would have sold him.
Besides he was back in the team by the end of the season mate and the exact same process happened the first time around, he was dropped, public spat over his fitness, Ferguson makes it public he wants to leave, Rooney signs a new contract.
He sold them Heinze and Van Nistelrooy the year before. Plus i always thought he was talking about the 'mob' that were currently running it Calderon etc. as he was unhappy with the way they tapped Ronaldo up. Also he no doubt knew at the time he was going to sell Ronaldo to them.
Anyway i'm off topic so i'll leave it there.
Definitely mate but i have a feeling we won't be seeing anymore statues going up anytime soon. Not until they sort out what they want to do to the stadium, expansion, new roof, reskinning etc.
At this rate we'll have more statues than fans.
When Giggs and Scholes and Nev and Keane don`t have one then no, he doesn`t deserve it. But if we build another stadium and like Arsenal make a statue for every legend we had then yeah, he totally deserves it.
5 years after he retires and we remember Wayne Rooney, the player and not the one who handed in transfer requests and had a rough decline, everyone will be petitioning to get his statue outside OT.
I think- he, Scholes and Giggs will get a statue in near future
I think- he, Scholes and Giggs will get a statue in near future
I think his two attempts to leave the club in order to extract more money from us exclude him from having one. A statue belongs to a true fan favourite and he, whilst seen as a legend, just doesn't rank high enough.
Yep, a few years after he retires yes.
This. Wait until most of us here grows old. Old people tend to remember only good things about the past.
Yes.
I'm not sure you needed to answer.
Every football related statue I've ever seen has been shit.
No Statues for anyone. Statues are nothing but toilets for pigeons. With pigeons come rats. With rats comes the plague. It all starts with statues...
True. There's no way metal can capture Wayne's eyes. I'd use watercolours.
Yeh. This is my ultimate view of a "legend". Football isn't just a statistical number, but encompass much greater emotional values. Otherwise, every football fans would support Barcelona in Pep's era.
Let them put a statue at Goodison after he retires.
Considering Sir Bobby, Law and Best only got one together I don't think so. Maybe if a few of the '08 team has stuck together longer and earned one possibly, but not on his own.
Does statue deserve a Rooney?
He scored so many goals 
No
It's polemic. Only God knows.
But if someone beats Rooney's record then why do we have a statue for him? Do we take it down again?
He's a club legend and will be forever remembered. But not worthy of a statue.
He's a club legend and will be forever remembered. But not worthy of a statue.
Giggs and Scholes deserves more than him
You must have high standards when it comes to the construction of a physical shine.
Yes he does and so does Giggs
Giggs, Becks, Scholes who came through the youths won far more titles and made United a global behemoth after some what 20 odd years in the wilderness. Scholes and Giggs lasted a few generations and were part of 2 CL winning teams. I don't feel winning the Ballon D'or comes into it. These 3 lads were academy products, 2 of whom stayed their entire careers and will come back at some point. Giggs and Scholes could easily get statues. In 30 years time they probably will as they helped bring United back from Liverpool dominance. Its all about timing. In the future, people will be less fixated on the holy trinity and more on the class of 92. Rooney will also become more fondly remembered
Not sure you needed to quote me.