evra
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Pissed off - would just confirm the suspicion that he has been lazy for a number of years now.
and a good chance we'd end up getting him back. No thanks. Don't care if he scores against us.A loan would mean we would still be paying most if not all his wages.
Angry and confused.
Angry and confused.
With penalties I agree. 10-15 field goals would be too much for him though.I don't think he is good enough for us anymore - but if he is playing regularly he will score 10-15 goals. If he had played regularly for us, he would have scored that amount of goals. Simply because he is still good at set-pieces and even if he has lost that extra pace, he can still strike the ball like few others.
Same.I've said for months now: give him the games, keep him fit, he'll do the business. But I got shouted down time and time again by the haters
By which, all the times he started and fluffed it all up by stinking out the place? There's one thing giving fitness to a player but there's another by giving a Charity Run out to a Sunday League Pub player.I've said for months now: give him the games, keep him fit, he'll do the business. But I got shouted down time and time again by the haters
I think it's more the fact people say Rooney hasn't looked after himself. But that suggests lacking peak fitness which can be addressed. Yes acceleration and speed obviously reduces with age, but I guess I never saw that as a massive part of his game. Important of course, but not exactly like an Owen where speed is 90 percent of his game and injuries ruined him.You find the idea that people lose speed and acceleration as they age a strange concept?
And grannies.The only thing he'll smash is the buffet.
It was literally a third of his game. His aggression, acceleration from a dead stop and brute strength was a huge part of what made him capable of winning matches at his best. He had quality at his feet but so do many, many players without his (former) physical advantages.I think it's more the fact people say Rooney hasn't looked after himself. But that suggests lacking peak fitness which can be addressed. Yes acceleration and speed obviously reduces with age, but I guess I never saw that as a massive part of his game. Important of course, but not exactly like an Owen where speed is 90 percent of his game and injuries ruined him.
It was only last season when the manager dropped him for not performing. Previously he had the unwavering support of the managers regardless of how he performed. I'd say it's purely physical rather than mental. That said, if he can take better care of himself and, more importantly, tailor his game and manage his body to adjust to the new reality he could make a success of it.There's a difference between simple pressure from a bad bit of form whilst you're still in a body that responds as you expect it to, there's something else when you're trying to find your feet with a fading body that doesn't whilst you've got 76,000 people watching your every mistake and a manager who will invariably bench you in short shrift for it.
We don't know the psychological burden the above takes on a player, but it's not hard to imagine that going from one of the superstars of the team, and the game at large, to bit part write off, is going to take a tremendous toll. So even if he is physically shot, it may well have been that he was mentally drained as well. If that's the case, you've an environment that's no good for anyone.
Field goals?!?!With penalties I agree. 10-15 field goals would be too much for him though.
I'm pretty sure that's just confirmation bias.Part of me wonders why we didn't do this as a loan. So if he does somehow get his shit together (with the newfound passion that comes with representing his boyhood club) then he can score against teams around us without ever lining up against us. Even if he stays at the same crap level he showed for us last season I'd say there's a huge chance he'll score against us. Ex players scoring against former clubs is such a common theme.