He plays like he's running through mud.
How would you feel if Rooney smashed it at Everton?
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It was Anfield in fairness, and it’s more shit than mud but hey.. you gotta do what you gotta do
He plays so badly nowadays but he seems to have a moment most games where he shows his quality still. The pass to calvert lewin was great, although my first thought was he hit it first time because he knew he didnt have the legs to run down the line with it.
Credit to him with his penalties, his composure is fantastic. He just gives off the feeling nothing fazes him which for the other everton players must be good having someone with that mentality around.
Credit to him with his penalties, his composure is fantastic. He just gives off the feeling nothing fazes him which for the other everton players must be good having someone with that mentality around.
Another goal for brother Wayne. Scored more goals already than he did for us last year.
53 behind Shearer for all-time Premier League scorer. Would have smashed that if it wasnt for his injuries.
53 behind Shearer for all-time Premier League scorer. Would have smashed that if it wasnt for his injuries.
He certainly has exceeded whatever little goal scoring expectations people on here had from him.
I expected 5-10 league goals, so he'll prove me wrong. Could end up with 20 if he really kicks on.
Or being shit for the last 3 years.
He's doing well beyond expectation, very happy for him.
Picked up his form since the drink driving incident and being benched for a string of games. The kick up the arse he needed, hopefully sorted his drinking out and Everton are seeing the fruits.
I wonder if he had fitness targets to meet.
I wonder if he had fitness targets to meet.
One probably doesnt happen with out the other in fairness. Breaking his football every other year and getting dragging to tournaments when he should be rehabing is why he's playing at Everton age 31.
9 PL goals now 
Really hope he gets to around 20 goals for the season which is 8-9 goals away and doable. For a free transfer, that would be great for Everton.
Really hope he gets to around 20 goals for the season which is 8-9 goals away and doable. For a free transfer, that would be great for Everton.
9 PL goals now
Really hope he gets to around 20 goals for the season which is 8-9 goals away and doable. For a free transfer, that would be great for Everton.
He's on 10 so it is entirely doable.
9 PL goals now
Really hope he gets to around 20 goals for the season which is 8-9 goals away and doable. For a free transfer, that would be great for Everton.
Am I the only one who finds posts like this an absolute pain in the hoop? Why the hell would anyone be pleased if Everton get a great deal on a free transfer for a player we let go?
People are actually rating Rooney 
He's played exactly like last season, laboured, dropping into areas where he doesn't belong, scores goals consistently.
He's played exactly like last season, laboured, dropping into areas where he doesn't belong, scores goals consistently.
Am I the only one who finds posts like this an absolute pain in the hoop? Why the hell would anyone be pleased if Everton get a great deal on a free transfer for a player we let go?
And paid half a year of his contract to get rid of. If he starts turning up for Everton it’s more shame on his disgraceful showings for us over the last 3 seasons.
From what I’ve seen he’s been no better at Everton so that’s neither here nor there. I just find it weird when fans get so besotted with individual players that the love affair continues when they’ve playing at other clubs. A) because who gives a rat’s arse about players at other clubs and B) the better their career after leaving us the more doubt it casts on our decision to let them go.
Am I the only one who finds posts like this an absolute pain in the hoop? Why the hell would anyone be pleased if Everton get a great deal on a free transfer for a player we let go?
Some people here were always Rooney fans more than United fans, so it's not surprising. It's actually embarassing to support Everton because their fans laughed at us during the Moyes period, so hoping they get relegated would be far more sensible to do than to support them or any of their players, at least as an United fan.
Fair feck to you though, thought you were one of biggest Rooney fanboys while he was here but your comments on him since he signed for Everton are spot on, regarding both his transfer and performances. I have no idea how can anyone who watched him once this year say he is great for Everton, he is probably even worse than he was here last few years.
I'm happy we got rid but let's be honest, would we be any worse off with him in the side instead of Lukaku?
Nonsense. He has scored a number of decisive goals for them this season, including today. That is a good performance from a forward.
Am I the only one who finds posts like this an absolute pain in the hoop? Why the hell would anyone be pleased if Everton get a great deal on a free transfer for a player we let go?
I said it's a great deal for Everton if he gets them 20 goals on a free transfer and that's true. I don't like or dislike Everton so as long as Rooney's not scoring to take points off us, I hope he does wonderfully for them.
This isn't the Ronaldo/Tevez deal where we've let players at their peak. Who's going to cast any doubts over letting Rooney leave? Our player has improved and we have a better striker and attack than we did with him so yeah, I don't see anyone casting doubts over our decision to let him go. He'd not even get games for us.
Who here is doing that? Being delighted that he's doing well at his new club = supporting new club?!
They were fighting relegation just few weeks ago, and he was one of their worst players during that period. He was always going to have period of couple of good games, but this will end pretty quickly, as it always does with him. He is one of the main reasons Everton were appaling in first few months, was dropped because of that, and he is probably their highest paid player.
Everton fans laughed at us then?!
They just made the list. There, #547.
They just made the list. There, #547.
He was dropped by the interim manager wasn't he? The guy who lost every game until it was confirmed that he was gone?
Hoping Everton player scores 20 goals for, and saying it would be a great for Everton is pretty much called supporting Everton in my book.
That is a good performance for a forward for Everton.
Rooney's performances would have him benched if he was still here, and then he wouldnt be able to get a run of games that he usually needs because of his poor fitness.
We'd be way worse with Rooney in it unfortunately. Lukaku, despite his shocking touch, does bring us a lot more pace.
I've not really watched his performances so no idea how his touch etc have been but yeah, he's definitely scored decisive goals and not just consolations and/or 4th goals in a rout. He's got them points at the Etihad and Anfield, winner against Stoke, 1st goal and a hat trick in a 4-0 win and the winner today. That's a lot of important goals and points there.
Have you watched him play this season?
What do you make of Lukaku then? He's been putting in largely abject showings aside from scoring goals.
I've watched loads of Everton games this season as I'm interested to see how some of their young English players get on. Rooney 100% wasn't the reason they were playing badly when I watched them. I'm not sure how you deduced that Rooney was the reason all their players were substandard before Big Sam came. It really is baffling.
Our books are pretty different then. I want my favorite player and all time top scorer to continue to do well (irrespective of where he'd gone unless it were a rival) and hopefully get closer to beating Shearer's record. I don't care if Everton get relegated or finish in the Europa, I'm glad he's doing well and hope he continues to.
There’s a difference between hoping Everton does well and hoping rooney does well due to his services for us over the years. I mean, lots on here want Ronaldo to do well at RM
Have you been following Everton games to see how he plays? If yes, you're a bigger Everton fan than me then.
I can't agree with that. Lukaku was instrumental in the Arsenal win and has been working his arse off during his goal drought. He has been improving other areas of his game which is what I would expect from a him so he can become an all round CF.
The only abject performance from Lukaku was the City game. Other games he's been a mixture of satisfactory to good.
To be fair to him despite how poor he is sometimes his goals have probably gained us 12/22 points we have so far this season. He's the only player in our team that is capable of doing that by pure relentlessness though.
You really think that Lukaku was good tonight aside from the goal?
I'm glad it's not a complete disaster for him but having seen most of his goals I think he's had a bit of a fortunate run. A few tap ins, goalkeeper mistakes, pens. Don't see him carrying on with that strikerate.
Nah I started supporting United because of Ruud. Was as big a Ruud fanboy as I'm of Rooney.
I'd take that to be honest. Last season we drew with Bournemouth and weren't far off from doing the same tonight without him.
No, I tend to watch games because I like football in general, not because I have hard on for some certain players.
He was decent tonight, he was gassed in the last 10 minutes because he was running the channels and tracking back a lot. That performance for Lukaku was better than 90% of Rooney's performances for us for a while.