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what did I just watch?Not very difficult, drop janazaj for herrera, who actually knows how to play the no10 role like a boss
Good performance from him, but Brugge were torrid. Sunday is a proper test.
This.
Not really performance related, but look at these remarks from LvG - and once over, people were certain they wouldn't get on and Rooney would be shipped out (it was always more likely to be wishful thinking than reality, but that's what they were saying).
As here:
As here:
http://www.90min.com/posts/2510063-...RSS&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
We'll hear van Gaal's real thoughts about Rooney when he retires. Can't fight the machine now.
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Good grief. For an uneducated person (supposedly), Wayne sure knows exactly how to play people.
Louis van Gaal expects Rooney to get around 25 goals, he isn't Brendan Rodgers taking random numbers out of the air, his staff obviously will have provided evidence Rooney can get this return. Rooney will be expected to play about 40 matches so 25 goals works out to around 3 in 5.
Interestingly in the past 5 seasons Rooney has averaged every 5 matches 2.65 goals (that's 5 seasons including this season so far) and most those games he hasn't even played as a striker. He also managed an average of 2 goals every 5 matches for the past three seasons, where he has played quite a bit deeper in addition to CAM under Ferguson, Moyes and Louis van Gaal and that also includes one season where we finished 7th and one where we finished 4th.
A return of 3 in 5 is a realistic target for him.
Interestingly in the past 5 seasons Rooney has averaged every 5 matches 2.65 goals (that's 5 seasons including this season so far) and most those games he hasn't even played as a striker. He also managed an average of 2 goals every 5 matches for the past three seasons, where he has played quite a bit deeper in addition to CAM under Ferguson, Moyes and Louis van Gaal and that also includes one season where we finished 7th and one where we finished 4th.
A return of 3 in 5 is a realistic target for him.
Huh? What do you mean "play people"? And what's education got to do with it? He's making suggestions about playing football, not solving global warming.
Encouraging words from LVG. Judging by our reluctance to sign a top striker, he believes in Rooney. If Rooney delivers, LVG's managerial post is safe. If Rooney fails, LVG fails too. Is United the next big club at which he is going to win a big trophey? Or rather the next big club at which he is going to be sacked again? He's sort of a flawed genius. You don't know what to expect: brilliance or underachievement.
With Moyes, DM desperately needed a senior player onboard to prop-up his poor credentials as United manager (while also shifting players he considered 'disloyal' to him); in this scenario, Wayne hardly even had to try to cement his position at the club. With LVG: Van Gaal often has a lieutenant amongst his players, an on-and-off-field 'captain' with whom LVG can discuss all manner of matters; I'm not sure that we, or him, should be listening to Wayne Rooney, of all people.
Don't think he will score today.
Why?
Politics gone mad. There once was a time when nobody (players) was bigger than the club.
What politics?
Yeah, like that time Roy Keane held the club to ransom. Or all the way back to the 70s when Best just decided when he could be arsed turning up for training and matches.
Bit absurd to suggst the manager shouldn't listen to an opinion from any player, never mind the club captain. Even more so in the context of an article where Van Gaal clearly states that he takes every opinion on its own merits.
I still don't get what you mean about "playing" people, by the way. Would you prefer if Van Gaal never got any feedback from the players? Or is it just Rooney who should hold his tongue?
Not too fussed about this. Fergie used to take advice from Keano, Neville and Giggsy as well. It's pretty normal for a manager to do this with his captain. I'm more interested in Rooney's on field performances. Apart from Brugge, it's been shit and he needs to seriously buck up.
That's not at all what I suggested.
I mean that he's looked after number one whenever the occasion's presented itself. I don't consider him to be a neutral observer, with the club's best interests at heart, when it comes to discussing things with Van Gaal.Pogue Mahone said:
You'll have to give me examples of him "looking after number one" in this context. I mean, he's not talking contract renewals with Van Gaal. He's talking about how to win games of football. What makes you think his priority here is anything other than winning?
Oh, granted I can only guess the detail of his conversations with LVG - it's all my opinion, rather than fact. Basically, I just don't feel that Wayne is United through-and-through (fair play to him, as he's always been honest about being an Everton supporter), so I'm always going to be uneasy about him being Captain and 'lieutenant'. But none of this matters - it's only so much opinionated garbage, after all - so long as he delivers, as I hope he does.
For 300k per week he should do more than play football.
I'm fine with him playing only football for 400k per week.
Swansea 2:1 Man Utd
id rather watch Torres up front.....
Seen this before from him, he will have a shite 45 minutes but a goal in second half is going to erase the first half from our memory.
The worst thing that could have happen did when he netted 3 in midweek.
That will reassure the management he can lead the line for the season, he can't.
That will reassure the management he can lead the line for the season, he can't.
Dissapointed he didn't shoot when Shaw played him in. Really terrible decision to try and cut back.
Ya, as if he needs one. His hat-trick against Bruge will have him covered until at least November.
Not even the best Wayne on the pitch, and Routledge is shite.
At one point Herrera had the ball on the edge of the penalty area, Rooney was standing next to him watching...this is the weakness in his game as a #9
Someone needs to pull him out of Ashley Williams's pocket
Several half chances but at least he is getting in behind the defence. Still think we don't fashion enough chances for him via crosses. He score about 20 goals from Valencia's crossing back in 2009/2010?
Lead the line? the whole line is shit right now
I don't disagree, but we need a strong focal point.
Yeah it was awful when he got that hat-trick. At 3-0 I was sitting there with my head in my hands.
Will score in the second half
Thanks FC Brukka, now we're stuck with the fat man up front for the rest of the season due to his hat trick in midweek.
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