Ehh... no? Are we playing a game where we ask each other pointless questions to keep the thread going?
Pretty sure I read a few posts today with people being fed up with Mourinho for playing Rooney. Seems pretty pointless if they know his hands are tied?
Come on there as a sub a couple of times and taken MOM. Not bad going I'd say. Bit of a waste putting Rooney there if someone else can do a better job.
I can agree with most of your post except the bolded part. Hardly any of the ideas commonly described as 'insane conspiracy theories' are bizarre (for instance, the idea that Rooney/ his camp might feed stories to journalists, or that agents might seek to include extraordinary demands in contracts) - no-one is claiming that Rooney can fly or that he controls the weather. Simply calling things 'bizarre' and 'insane' doesn't make them so, and this shut-down-the-criticism tactic is all too obvious.
He's trying to avoid injury, and has been for ages.
That is true, but he did pick up quite a lot of injuries when he was younger. Remember how he broke his foot in the match against Chelsea before EURO 2004?
Jose said that?
Is this old or embargoed?
Agreed. Think he will be dropped tomorrow
He was shit vs Bournemouth which was before Slovakia
Well I don't think he plays for free.
I do find it insane to think that a huge business as United would accept such a contract with all the lawyers and businessmen involved. You can say all you want about Woodward's experience in football but as a businessman he's proven and I really doubt a person previously working with M&A would be that bad at negotiating a deal. But if that's the case I'll admit I was wrong and that our management is shit. If there's any pressure from the top my guess, which might be deemed just as insane by others, would be that it's for marketing purposes, since our club seems to be around 90% marketing and 10% football at the moment, and they need him to break that record.
It won't and nor should it. The only thing more ridiculous than the idea of a playing clause is the amount of starts he gets no matter how shite he plays.
Well marginally considering LvG used to say stuff like benching Rooney would be no big deal too.
No chance of that happening.It will be interesting to read the caf if Rooney starts tomorrow and gets a hat trick!
At Bayern he got rid of that "captain" when he did not want to give him a starting guarantee anymore... Van Bommel. So it went down the hill that year anyways. Is a Rooney on the bench with all the media turmoil and the problems in the dressing room better? Pep got rid of Hart when he still could do - and I doubt that Yaya still has the influence in the dressing room.
Would love for that to happen. But the guy has scored 2 goals since February....It will be interesting to read the caf if Rooney starts tomorrow and gets a hat trick!
Yeah it will. But it won't happen. So you'll have to stick to laughing at all your hypothetical Rooney scenarios in that fantasy world you live in.It will be interesting to read the caf if Rooney starts tomorrow and gets a hat trick!
Was Van Bommel considered a legend at Bayern? Or had huge influence with the German press?
One way or another David Moyes truly did set us back quiet a few years and adding salt to the wounds with that 5 year 300 K contract, was that the worst decision made in a long time? that and not accepting chelsea's offer, oh yes. For me Fergie its a big shame he did not finish what he started by selling off rooney, and maybe retired in summer 2014.
It will be so funny if he scored 8 goals tomorrow and beats PL record too!!!!!It will be interesting to read the caf if Rooney starts tomorrow and gets a hat trick!
Legend at Bayern - no. (Not with the masses of CL-winners, World Cup winners etc.) Huge influence with the press - no. Very big influence in that dressing room - yes. Very good connection to Hoeneß and Rummenigge - yes. He was a role model for a captain at Bayern - took really care of his players even with their private problems and took e.g. Müller and Badstuber "under his feathers". I think especially Schweinsteiger took him as a role model and not the other captains he got to know in his career like Ballack or Kahn.
I think the main thing for managers is the press and fans. Van Bommel might have had a great influence in the dressing room but would players really be upset with a player who is holding the team back leaving or being dropped (not sure if Van Bommel was, but Rooney is)? I doubt it.
He'd impress me with a hat trick of good first touches...It will be interesting to read the caf if Rooney starts tomorrow and gets a hat trick!
I don't need fantasy to laugh! I laugh a lot reading all these Rooney threads!
TBF your posts are the funniest things about Rooney threads.I don't need fantasy to laugh! I laugh a lot reading all these Rooney threads!
I would say, maybe he has turned it around after 3 years. It will be the biggest comeback in modern day sports.It will be interesting to read the caf if Rooney starts tomorrow and gets a hat trick!
If he were to play like he was capable of years ago and dominate games then the whole Caf would be happy to see that. But he's not capable of it anymore. Even though the criticism is often quite personal and savage, it's sprung from a more sensible criticism which is very fair: he's nowhere near what he was and we can't carry passengers or adapt to the needs of a player whose fading ability doesn't merit it.It will be interesting to read the caf if Rooney starts tomorrow and gets a hat trick!
