We can criticize him all day long but if we're to get back in this game playing the kind of football we're playing, it may very well be because of a Rooney assist out of nowhere. We're playing such dire brand of football, I actually feel more confident with Rooney in the side. He is going to play as poor as everybody else on the pitch but at least manages to come up with something sometimes. The rest of the players, I have no confidence in them when we're trailing or playing poorly.
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Rooney is one big negative, a negative that has plagued our team for years. I'm sick of the sight of him and past the point of being rational.
Mourinho has admitted Rooney isn't a midfielder, yet now he's back to playing in midfield. What more proof do we need to see that Rooney isn't playing for his ability as a footballer?
Should be nowhere near the first team. He offers absolutely nothing.
Do you think Rooney is a better midfielder than Herrera?
He's our captain, highest paid player and supposedly our leader. When things aren't going well these are the kind of players you expect to show up but alas we get more of the same old shit.
That's as close to a ringing endorsement as Rooney ever gets these days; 'he was awful but someone else was worse'.
It's becoming a bit of a joke. Pre-game Scholes tells us Rooney will do well in midfield, as does Hoddle. In game, he starts to look bad, Savage tells us it's because he's a #10. There is always some excuse for him being awful. It's starting to look very, very desperate.
What if he makes other players worse, and not better as a No 10 should do?
Everyone who keeps pointing to other players being poor too, do you realise which thread you're in?
Savage said it himself, play him as a 10 or not at all
Depressing,isn't it?
Do you honestly think Herrera would have made us dominating with us up 3-0 or something?
Blind, Carrick, schneiderlin and Herrera. CMs who aren't playing while Rooney spends most of the half playing there. Don't even care if it's supposed to be a 4-2-3-1or a 4-3-3, he's playing like a CM.
Rooney's awful displays are about as predictable as Rojo's performances these days.
So having a CM playing in CM won't make a difference? Nice one.
Mou has not the balls to drop him.
Why do you need to go to such an extreme to defend Rooney? He was simply asking if you think Herrera is a better midfielder than Rooney, not if you believe Herrera would single-handedly dominate Watford.
Mourinho is looking scared. He's feeling the pressure from having to perform at a level like SAF. He's out of his depth.
Not good enough first half. Being moved forward to the position he should be in the second, needs to be better.
Has anybody anywhere said he's the only problem? Who are you arguing this point with?
Herrera is hardly a game changer. Which is kind of the point.
It's a stupid point then because the job of a CM isn't to be a game changer. Arguing it's fine that Rooney is playing at CM instead of actual CMs is fine because we wouldn't be winning 3-0 anyways makes no sense.
£300k a week.
Just please get him the feck out of our club, enough is enough.
Nice control by our captain there. Controlled the ball out of the touch line.
He's crap.
This is an utter embarrassment
The point is not that we need a game-changer, it's that we need a balanced and cohesive XI which this clearly isn't. I made the same point after the terrible midweek game: we need to have a plan, and give the team some time to gel within that plan. This lineup with these tactics has no plan to get the ball forward. And Rooney is one of the most intractable problems with this lineup (unless he is shifted wide).
He's utter muck. Now he'll get frustrated and become even worse.
£300,fecking,000 a week this guy earns and he can't even control a football.
Cannot wait
3rd worst player at our club after Rojo and Depay. Yes I even rate Darmian higher.
He's finished.
He's a disgrace. Would look out of place in the Chinese league.
Every single thing he does is shit. That 'cross'. FFS.
That was... Wow.
You'd have to genuinely try to be this fecking useless.
Wait, someone told me he's Beckham incarnate?
Where are all those 'best player on the pitch' fellas now?
Absolutely criminal he starts week in week out.
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