I'm at a loss people can point fingers at LvG for Rooneys form this season.
The team has been bent over backwards to fit Rooney in this season, where ever possible. I'm sure LvG would play him CB if it mean having his captain on the pitch. No other manager in the world would make allowances for a player as LvG has for Rooney this season. Pointing fingers at LvG for Rooney's poor form is laughable.
The guy was sunday league level at the start of the season, LvG can not be blamed for that. Poor first touch, inability to finish (chances at Wolfsburg away and two away to swansea spring up in my mind straight away. Penalty against Middlesborough etc). There no nice way to put it, the guy was CRAP. Crap as he had been throughout all of 2015 where he was also being shoe horned in anywhere possible. Had a very poor run in central midfield which makes me bamboozled as to why people want him to stay there.
A purple patch, against poor oppositon, in January and some 'not-bad' performances in midfield against crap sides do not vindicate the guy. He has become our Gerrard and needs to be moved on so we can move forward as a club. This was the case in 2013, three years later it still is the case.
It was similar in Moyes' season. Rooney had a good first few months to the season. Funnily enough his form plummeted as soon as he was awarded with his ridiculous contract.
Funnily enough Mata and Herrera are two players I believe would almost definitely do better in a different set up, under a better manager. As are players like Schneiderlin, Lingaard, Depay and a few others. I'd go as far as saying Martial and Rashford would both be much better under a different manager.
LvG has been a joke, his refusal to drop Rooney this season, during the first half, definitely played a large part in why we will not get 4th place this season. I mean should we beat Bournemouth today we'd be equal on points with city - our talisman and captain did not contribute a single point in the first half of the season. For me that's can not be overlooked.