It's not just Rooney's goal scoring record, but his unbelievable contract with image rights entanglement that Moyes gave him. United needs a banker added to its board, one who will tell them Rooney is a non-performing asset, and the remaining money in the contract is a sunk cost.
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The problems should of been addressed instead of just papering over the cracks, the football was awful, I'm happy we signed rvp dont get me wrong, but that stellar signijng should of been made years before hand
Chicharito scored more goals than Rooney in RVP's season under Fergie so to say 2 threats is disrespectful to the other players.
We seem to be arguing the same point for 2 different conclusions. I agree that United needed to replace Ronaldo's goals.
The thought was clearly for Berbatov and Rooney to be the attacking axis post Ronaldo. It wasn't good enough though and RVP showed the value of having a top class striker.
Rvp showed his class at not leaving it all to Rooney, it was berbatov that was the weak link not Rooney and again because hernandez was the the striker.
Its down to the team being better, not because Rooney wasn't the main striker, if there was a Rooney up front and a Rooney in the no10 we would of won the league and probably the ones before that.....if that makes any sense at all
Two Rooneys? Valencia would be off exhausted at half time.
We're going around in circles here. My point about Rooney is that he seems more comfortable (and plays better) in a team that is built around him. His best partnerships at United were with Chicharito and Welbeck who are not elite level players.
The issue with that is despite Rooney playing better, the team is not good enough to compete at the top level. The solution is to buy a world class forward to up the level of the side. Rooney will play worse (I don't think he'd even be able to form a decent partnership with himself in your scenario above) but it is better for the team.
Dropped again.
Nice.
Nice.
Mourinho's done a great job with the Rooney problem at the moment.
What i want to hear now is Mou stating that he sees Rooney as no9 so Zlatan and Rooney compete for the place in the team. That should burry all chances of Rooney starting soon.
his friends are desperately hoping we don't play well.
Seems nobody cares in the press today either. Seen no tweets at all about it, which is what we need frankly.
Untouchable no more... thought I'd never see this day.
My love for Mourinho has risen, hope this is the permanent drop.
Please please follow it with a win lads.
Agreed, Jose has played this one very well. He essentially kept playing him until no one could argue he wasn't shite and then benched him and we played great.
Still early doors though, if we struggle in a few games it won't take long for the Rooney lovers in the press to start mobilising again.
I feel excited going into matches now because no Rooney
Good win with fluid football and many goals.
Dropped two PL games in a row? This is pretty big actually
Wonder how the reation from the media will be
Wonder how the reation from the media will be
On Thursday I managed to get free VIP tickets for the game through work and the compere in the dining big mentioned Rooney a couple of times, basically stressing that he's "probably just injured, nothing to worry about etc"
now it could be that he just either doesn't watch us properly or doesn't know much about football, but it did make me wonder if he'd been briefed to talk it down - bear in mind he was addressing 200 people and didn't have to mention it at all.
now it could be that he just either doesn't watch us properly or doesn't know much about football, but it did make me wonder if he'd been briefed to talk it down - bear in mind he was addressing 200 people and didn't have to mention it at all.
I for one am glad he's been dropped again, just waiting for the bitching and shitty comments that will slowly "filter" their way into the press In an all too obvious Paul Stretford stylie.
Hoddle - maybe bring Rooney on to lift the crowd.
Not heard his name sang once mate.
Tony Martial on the other hand....
Not heard his name sang once mate.
Tony Martial on the other hand....
Soo.. was that an assist or did it come off the defender ?
Rooney miscontrolled it and it was tackled to Martial.
Yeah. Saw that. Who got the final touch before Martial?
Did that count as assist ? 
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.His terrible forst touch helped us score. #hemeantit
Defender I beleive.
It is not an assist, the defender played the ball
Rooney IS Scott Sterling.
The commentator actually said "created by one substitute, finished by the other"
I swear if we had scored before he even came on they'd find a way to attribute it to Rooney.
I swear if we had scored before he even came on they'd find a way to attribute it to Rooney.
Anyone with eyes can see that Rooney hasnt offered anything since coming on... But England main man and all thatThe commentator actually said "created by one substitute, finished by the other"
He is fecking shocking. I'd be delighted if he never played for us again. Fat as hell and just useless!
His set pieces are shocking, why does he rush over to take them?
Because he wants to pick up an assist. Brought nothing today, shpuld stay on the bench again, all three of Mata, Lingard and Rashford were better, Martial too.
Adds nothing.. Seriously... throwing a kid from the U18s would have the same impact.. if not more. What exactly is it that he does?
He did nowt but get in the way and slow us down when he came on. Plus, why is he taking out corners and free kicks? He's shite at them.
useless sack of shite
Linesman looks leaner than our captain. Good stuff.
I'm starting to really, really dislike him.
I'm hating his body language, I thought he'd give us that at least.
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