Rooney for Stones, sounds like a deal.
Not sure why that's funny really... The guy has played in numerous positions for us. He's played out wide in big games to accommodate Ronaldo. He's been played in midfield to address the managers failings in the transfer market in the past. He has worked his nuts off for the team over the years. I'd consider him a selfless player. Hell even Mr United Giggs considered leaving at one point in his career.
Don't be crazy dude. Don't you know Wayne is basically a traitor because he wanted more money?
Your post came across as though as he was a selfless person, rather than his footballing play isn't selfish.. which I'm sure most would agree with, I'd like to see him be more selfish and attempt a dribble or two like he would when he first joined.
Point me in the direction of a player who doesn't want more money?! Point me in the direction of a person full stop who doesn't.
He has/had some nerve, that Wayne!
Your not matching my ambitions, sign better players or I'm off, oops you've signed a better player and I'm not happy, I'm off. He plays where he's told otherwise he gets sold to a team that aren't stupid enough to spunk best player in the world type wages on a player who hasn't been worth them for a long time. Nothing to do with being selfless, it's all about the bottom line.
For a start he was absolutely right to question the clubs ambitions. For that I don't blame him. As for the second time around... We don't know for definite that was his reasons. But if it was then OK maybe he should have gotten on with it. On the other have he knew he was fast approaching the age where his performances would drop off and wanted to be playing. Yes the club pay too much in terms of wages for him but he's been a consistent performer for a long time now.
He's been consistently shite for a long time now.
No, because it was patently proven to be a disaster during Moyes' reign. Rooney has neither the consistent touch nor the awareness of what's around him on the pitch to be even a decent option as a 10. He will kill any attacks we may have at the source, and if we must persist with the albatross that is Wayne Rooney, then it will have to be as the 9, where he can do the least damage to the overall team schematic.
Some things just never change. I've long accepted that for as long as the team will be built to the strengths of Rooney, we won't win a single thing. Even when he was at his peak, the two seasons we had the team built around him we didn't win anything. He is just going to weigh us down and with that fat contract he's on, no other club will be idiotic or desperate enough to sign him on the current wages he's on. We're stuck with him for another three years at the very least guys
#ThankYouMoyes.The last 3 league games would suggest to me that actually he's doing a fair bit of harm to the overall team schematics... So I'm not sure dropping him back in to the whole is going to make things any worse. At least then our midfield players will have an option over the top to a striker who actually does make runs in behind.
I agree with this.
I think it depends. Personally, I think he's played some of his very best football when played in behind the striker, but the problem is that it's not always been a position he's been overly consistent in. He'll have spells where he plays some sublime stuff (not so much anymore though), followed by ones where he looks considerably worse.
how feckin gracious of him!
Id argue for the last few seasons he has been anything but consistent. From one game to the next you have absolutely no idea if we are getting the Rooney that scores an amazing overhead kick or spectacular goal or the one who cant trap a ball or find a teammate 5 yards away.
His best position is the one in which he last had a bad game.
Indeed. I have found it particularly embarrassing how large sections of the press are now saying he should be moved away from the position they campaigned to get him in. I think the Villa game was the first time I've actually seen a consensus of 'Rooney simply played poorly' in his career. It probably has happened, but I don't recall. Usually it is always someone else's fault.
But but but . . . Ronaldo only looked better because he was given so much freedom while Wayne sacrificed himself for the good of the team. Playing Ronaldo as the lone striker with Rooney wide (in Europe) was all to do with Wayne's selflessness and nothing to do with the fact that the team was far more dangerous having their best attacker in the most advanced position.
he is the current England captain. The press put Gerrard on a pedestal before the World Cup (in which he proceeded to die on his arse)
They have ALWAYS been kind to Rooney. As for Gerrard, it was embarrassing how they all clearly didn't want to say that he was playing shite last season.
Ironically we were a more dangerous side the year after Ronaldo left. Rooney went on to have a fantastic year. Don't read too much into that. It had to do with us being just completely predictable in Ronaldo's final year with everyone on the team standing around waiting for Ronaldo to be Ronaldo. A more varied attack with many heads is sometimes better than a world class talent that becomes the sole avenue of attack.
