I could accept it last season because every time he played he was really good, but now he’s not even delivering on the pitch it’s just more obvious how he doesn’t really care. Clearly not committed to us and seems to think he can just decide when he wants to play. Can’t be arsed with him.
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Manchester United is retirement home for old strikers. Rooney, RvP, Falcao, Zlatan, Cavani, Ronaldo... who's next? That's just in ten years ffs.
Will we ever learn?
Will we ever learn?
His constant injuries is frustrating. I wonder what our medical team do, this issue should have been flagged when we were offering him one year deal
I wouldnt count Rooney in. He had been with the club since a very young age. So RvP and Zlatan are the only ones that you can say were relatively successful in relation to their age and club situation when they joined.
We stick with all of them too long, including Rooney who was undroppable during long period, but as you say, at least he was here for long so at least he partly deserved it.
We don't discriminate by position. We also have Mata, Matic, Grant (still on a player contract).
It's his birthday today.
35 years young.
35 years young.
Maybe he should've just stayed the one season. Would've been seen as a United cult hero akin to Larsson.
Not much a medical team can do about a player who feigns injury because he can’t be arsed playing.
Yup. Just another example of poor planning by the club to rely on a 35 and 37 year old instead of buying a young striker.
100% this. It might have been OK if we had actually gone and bought a young striker who could learn off him. But instead we add another OAP in Ronnie, which is working out pretty much how one would expect a 37 year old in the most physical league in Europe. Must be a Premier league record to have two first choice CFs with an aggregate age of 72. Good job Ed!
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Part time footballer. Proper fecked ourselves relying on him. It's arguably even more harmful than having no one because it messes up our plans and distorts what we need at the position.
What happened to him again?
From memory, at the time we brought him there was very little expectation, general opinion was anything we could get out of him would be good and it made sense that he could be a leader figure in the dressing room and help develop Rashford and Greenwood in front of goal.
I don't think it's his fault that Rashford has gone 3 steps back this season, Greenwood has.. yeah and that Sancho hasn't hit the ground running. He should have naturally seen less game time and been relied upon less as the younger players developed over these 2 years. Instead, they've gone backwards or worse and he is not getting any younger.
Taking the piss again. But i can’t fault his commitment when he’s on the pitch representing the club
But we haven't relied on him, which is probably what his problem is. He never expected to be competing with Ronaldo this year.
This one is starting to get the same vibes as when we bought in Schweinsteiger. Class player but brought in 5 years too late
He came alive around March last season. I’d take that again this year. He doesn’t look as good this year so far though I think it’s fair to say. I guess he was hoping we’d let him leave In the last two windows which probably isn’t helping matters much.
He’s at the boxing tonight in Manchester
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Is he in the squad for tomorrow?
Meanwhile the Stretford end still serenades him….whilst he pops over to visit his relatives in South America on 250k a week….nice work if you can get it!
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Nope, groin issues and a stomach bug.
This is in the Manchester arena?
Looks terrible
Indeed it is - I’m surprised he’s made it out tonight with his tummy troubles - I suppose he’s taken some Imodium
It's not poor planning at all.
We had that young striker, but he turned out to be human garbage. We had 2 veteran CFs and an average 25y old one who we just sent out on loan.
Fecking pisses me off how much some supporters worship him while trashing others at our club at the same time.
Yeah, Maguire rarely misses games, but with the way he's treated by our "fans", you'd think he regularly skips games so he can torture cats with Zouma.
You do realise that has nothing to do with Cavani, right?
Or Maguire when he is the target, or Rashford, and so on.
It's just different bunches of morons having a go at anyone but whoever they adore. Rinse repeat, your regular day on the caf.
Won’t be making the Atletico match, still can’t sprint on his leg injury..
Late response but I totally agree. Rooney should've been moved on earlier or at least benched more often when his powers waned.
You forgot to mention Sanchez and Ighalo. Micheal Owen and Henrik Larson were surprise signings under Fergie who were decent at best with a few good moments. It's a united tradition! Rangknick wanted a young striker in January (Julian Alvarez who went to City) but was striked down.
We'll be lead by a 38 year old Ronaldo next season if we make top four. Who indeed is next? If the trend continues I could see united signing someone like Kane when he turns 34!
Yeah, Sanchez and Ighalo too, they are so irrelevant I even forgot about them.
A million quid a month doing sod all 
He probably got inspired by Jones.A million quid a month doing sod all
The transfer strategy (if you could even call it one) at this club is everything to do with the position we find ourselves in.
I wouldn't trust our board / recruitment team with pocket money let alone 100m a season. I'd get rid of the lot of them and start again.
I wouldn't trust our board / recruitment team with pocket money let alone 100m a season. I'd get rid of the lot of them and start again.
It is disappointing that the club is spending 250/week on a player who will let them when he's ready to play, which isn't all that often, but if we turns up with a match winner in the CL it will have been worth it.
That said, from now on we need to make sure we bring in players who will put shifts in, week in/week out.
That said, from now on we need to make sure we bring in players who will put shifts in, week in/week out.
A groin injury apparently, and a stomach bug thrown in just for good measure!
Taking the piss a little bit.
Taking the piss a little bit.
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