LOL. This thread is quite hilarious, it has almost become a fashion statement to veil the credit for Rooney with just the right amount of negativity so as not to be hunted down and hung as some sort of Rooney lover. Jesus christ he had a pretty good game and we still have people trying in desperation to paint him as eternally shit. I don't think I will ever understand it, fans of your own club who have more desire to hope a player is shit than enjoy when a player is not.
I now have no idea what it will be like if Rooney returns to some sort of vein of form. People won't know what to do with themselves.
And with that, goes your credibility in this thread.
By that logic, so does yours if you really like him as a person and a footballer, which you evidently do. feck off. An opinion is an opinion, and I stated within the post of mine you quoted, that I would much rather him have a cracker of a season and be proved wrong than the other way round. Quite convenient of you to leave out the bulk of the post and focus on that line.
He's been crap since Tottenham last season and constantly in and out of form for two seasons. The problem is when he is out of form, he is atrocious, and he is out of form more than any other top footballer out there. Not many people would argue with that fact or that his 'top level' when he does play to it, is world class. The problem is we are seeing far less of that top level in recent years. Obviously I have my concerns. As people have said, there seems to be really low standards of Rooney recently. There was definitely an improvement on the Villa game against Brugge but the flick aside, it was another generally under par performance. With the level of the opponent and their defensive injuries considered, you would have expected our attackers to have a field day against them. Depay certainly did, but Rooney was average except for one or two good moments.
That flick sums up Rooney as a footballer for the past two seasons. Capable of moments of brilliance but they distract from the rest of his declining game and are becoming rarer and rarer.