Tbf we'd be like "is he still trying that chip?". They're still asking what it is.
6'8 keeper on his line and Rooney tried a chip
How would you feel if Rooney smashed it at Everton?
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
6'8 keeper on his line and Rooney tried a chip
i remember a LVG press conference where it was basically about Rooney scoring a chip in training. With actual camera footage of it
Tonight I hear the commentators saying he is rusty. wow that changed very quickly
Tonight I hear the commentators saying he is rusty. wow that changed very quickly
Reading their board, well, it's quite funny isn't it, it's nice to be able to laugh at the Rooney situation now it's no longer our problem.
I want to enjoy this but now he's not our problem anymore it just seems tragic. I feel sorry for him. I genuinely hope he gives them a good season.
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To see the player he's become embarrasses Man Utd: For the past years we pretended a player who has become a passenger at the top level still had 'it.' For what? His ego? Our marketing plans?
Fergie always said no player could become bigger than the club or it would destroy the club. Rooney's survival at United post Fergie is a case in point. We lowered our standards to suit one man and the rot spread through the whole squad.
I actually thought Rooney was a little better last night. Compared to the first game at any rate. He showed a few decent touches and wasn't 100% awful.
The main reason he's dropped off is starting so early. It's happened to loads of players, especially strikers where sharpness is key. He obviously hasn't looked after himself brilliantly and his natural physique is on the large side. I still don't fully understand why his touch has gone so bad. His lack of fitness would explain it being poor later in the game but even from the off his first touch just seems to have gone dreadful all too often.
Anyway...why are we talking about him?!
The main reason he's dropped off is starting so early. It's happened to loads of players, especially strikers where sharpness is key. He obviously hasn't looked after himself brilliantly and his natural physique is on the large side. I still don't fully understand why his touch has gone so bad. His lack of fitness would explain it being poor later in the game but even from the off his first touch just seems to have gone dreadful all too often.
Anyway...why are we talking about him?!
Because it's a thread dedicated to talk about him?
So, so glad he's not our problem anymore.
Have Everton not bought another striker this summer? Going to look awful going into the season with Rooney first choice.
Scores vs Stoke
Reading some of the posts on here...
Told you guys he's still got it. Doing well so far.
Told you guys he's still got it. Doing well so far.
This isn't in the least bit premature
Sorry but if you read some of the thoughts on here you'd think he was a finished conference level player. He's definitely still got it to do well for Everton. Also everyone ridiculed the 'it's preseason he doesn't look sharp yet but will when the season starts' comments and now that it's actually happened "this is premature"?
You're using a single goal to justify the assertion that he's still got it. Yea I'd say that's premature.
Sandro Ramirez.
To be fair it sounds like the people he was responding to were using pre-season to justify the assertion that he doesn't. Equally silly.
Or the last few seasons.
Single goal? He's currently on fire linking up play. Check his stats on whoscored if you think I'm biased or watch the highlights. A good chunk of people here were making fun of the comments that he wasn't sharp because of pre-season which I didn't understand.
He's playing right now and looks sharp as ever so now the jokes on them.
Rooney has been brilliant in this second half. Making some really good incisive passes.
I think Rooney will have it easy at Everton, currently he is doing well because he gets to counter attack more, he has more space to pick out passes(we usually had to deal with packed defences), but seeing this match he still has all the same shortcomings he had at the end of his United career - dreadful touch often, misplaced passes, losing possession, his set-pieces have been abysmal so far.
IMO even if does score 10 or more goals for Everton we can safely assume that he never would have achieved that figure if he had stayed with us.
IMO even if does score 10 or more goals for Everton we can safely assume that he never would have achieved that figure if he had stayed with us.
Except for against united, I wish Rooney all the very best at Everton.
Pleased he's scored for his boyhood team today.
Pleased he's scored for his boyhood team today.
He has been excellent most of the game to be fair. I think it helps to have a bustling team around him and not that he can't handle pressure, but certainly at this stage in his career it might be ideal.
Pre season and the last three years.
New club bounce of enthusiasm.
He's been crap for us for 3 or r seasons.
Natural he'll go to Everton and be buoyed for a few weeks, maybe this season he'll be ok.
So what. Overall I'm glad he doesn't play for us any more
He's been crap for us for 3 or r seasons.
Natural he'll go to Everton and be buoyed for a few weeks, maybe this season he'll be ok.
So what. Overall I'm glad he doesn't play for us any more
The so what is two-fold:
- He's already on his way to proving how horribly wrong some people were in saying he wouldn't even get on the pitch for Everton because he's declined so badly
- There's a chance he'll be one of their main players in a successful bid to finish above their rivals Liverpool, which would naturally be a great deal for Everton and prove most people wrong on that front
Glad for Rooney. He might well smash it at Everton and I would be happy for him if he did, but I put it down to change of scenery. I would imagine that the change has refocused him and he will play better for it. Even if his nets 20, I'd not regret his leaving because I don't believe he would play the same in the United side.
I think he'll do well at that level. I dont buy what a few people here were saying that hes championship at best.
For a team at Evertons level i think he can offer a lot and will do well for them. I wish him well but as you say, i'm happy hes not here anymore.
He's proved all this with one game?
If his next game is poor would you reverse your opinion?
Did you deliberately misread the point or was it accidental? "on his way to" and "there's a chance" should answer your question.
He has already proven some people wrong, for what it's worth. Some people said Everton wouldn't go near him.
He was amazing. Nice seeing what a transfer can do to a player regarding new motivation. Has been proven before that players can find back to their old roots by changing clubs and this looks like another example.
If you think your post has been misinterpreted maybe take another look. It reads very much like someone making sweeping conclusions based on one game.
I honestly said before the game this morning that I hope he wins the golden boot this season. He looked quite good today.
Deliberately then. Fair enough. Each to their own.
Did he actually play well then?
Rooney scoring the winner in his first PL game for Everton after returning has been great.
Like some others said I hope he will score against any team bar us.
Like some others said I hope he will score against any team bar us.
Clearly there is a rather large contingent of United fans whom still possess an agenda against Wayne Rooney, god knows why, he isn't even a United player anymore.
Hope he smashes it at Everton.
Hope he smashes it at Everton.
Haven't seen Rooney actually sprint with a bit pace for awhile. He made a nice little run into the box, was free, and scored a nice header. Good for him, it was a good team goal and a match winner.
Glad Rooney is doing well. Not worried that we sold him as he won't keep it up.
If he does keep it up then we should be booing the fk out of him for stealing a wage from us for 3-4 seasons.
If he does keep it up then we should be booing the fk out of him for stealing a wage from us for 3-4 seasons.
To be honest that would be an absolute miracle. Some truly laudable stuff at his age and the stage of his career and the move he has just made. That would fire Everton pretty close to a title challenge would it not? I wouldn't be that phased if he 'smashed it' by putting up those kind of numbers, I personally think if he can net around 12-20 times in the league alone then it will be a mission accomplished for his move as far as returning to the international arena for one last hit out is concerned. I think if he can score 12-15 goals a season for the next four seasons it puts him in with a real shot of beating Shearers record, which would be an incredible cherry on the top of his already glittering career.
edit; Maybe the OP is talking goals in all competitions. I am merely talking in the league.
Rooney back in "white Pele" mode?