SSN: Rooney deal to D.C United agreed in principle

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What is absolutely astounding is that the contract that Moyes gave him would still run until the end of next season. I wonder if we are still subsiding his salaries because of how much he was set to earn with United.
 
How did Everton get rid of him so quick while we stuck with him 2.5 years of full shite?
 
Sarni said:
What is absolutely astounding is that the contract that Moyes gave him would still run until the end of next season. I wonder if we are still subsiding his salaries because of how much he was set to earn with United.
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I doubt. That's why we waived off the transfer fee and gave them Rooney on free.
 
Really strange move for Wayne. Not in terms of moving to the MLS but going to DC United. Washington is nothing like going to LA or even New York and just not the sort of place I think will suit him at all.
 
Coleen will love the American sun topping up on her tan.

Expect to see him on the BBC this summer doing punditry work talking about a World Class player like Ronaldo who is older knowing if he looked after himself better he would still be playing. Only himself to blame really.
 
Sarni said:
What is absolutely astounding is that the contract that Moyes gave him would still run until the end of next season. I wonder if we are still subsiding his salaries because of how much he was set to earn with United.
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I'm sure we waved off a huge chunk of it by giving him away for free
 
MJJ said:
We as a club have a habit of hanging on to dross.
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It's all that time we give to the managers, so they can sniff it, taste it, x-ray it to finally confirm that a turd is in fact a turd.
 
KM said:
I doubt. That's why we waived off the transfer fee and gave them Rooney on free.
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Well I don't think he was worth anything when we let him go though.
 
Decomposing In Paris said:
How did they make £12m doing it?
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Surely the "12m move" part is the wages over the contract time. I can't believe they paid to take him off Everton's hands. If so, we should hire whoever was responsible at Everton for that.
 
I don't know why but I can't see Coleen living in the states, she's really close with her mum and dad etc she seems like a real homebody.
 
Sarni said:
What is absolutely astounding is that the contract that Moyes gave him would still run until the end of next season. I wonder if we are still subsiding his salaries because of how much he was set to earn with United.
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Moyes' own contract would still run as well, think about that.
 
Decomposing In Paris said:
How did they make £12m doing it?
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I really doubt that £12m fee is accurate. He's nearly 33 with a year left on his contract and he's been on the bench loads recently. I suspect it's £6m to pay out Rooney from his Everton contract and then Rooney's new wage factored in to.
 
Adisa said:
A generation of Man Utd fans (teenagers) won't even know how good this guy was. He's been poor for so long.
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To be fair I can't remember him being good since 2012. That's 6 years of being shite.

If I was D.C United I'd be running away from him.
 
Bastian said:
Surely the "12m move" part is the wages over the contract time. I can't believe they paid to take him off Everton's hands. If so, we should hire whoever was responsible at Everton for that.
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Careful now, it's possibly the same guy that gave us £24m for Morgan Schneiderlin.
 
MJJ said:
We as a club have a habit of hanging on to dross.
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this + Rooney still thought he could do the job at Everton back then so he tied our hands up. Now he's older and far more realistic.
 
He's been dross for years. Ferguson wanted rid of him for a reason, he saw what took the club years to see.
 
Semi-retirement and the American diet will see him balloon out to the size of a bus within 6 months.
 
Decomposing In Paris said:
Careful now, it's possibly the same guy that gave us £24m for Morgan Schneiderlin.
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Hahaha. I'm pretty sure that Rooney didn't go for a fee, but on the minuscule chance he did, the one who deserves credit for that cannot be the same person. Those two acts are mutually exclusive. Unless there's been a brain-transplant.
 
Wow, way too many harsh comments. Burning out or declining in your late twenties is very normal. Rooney gets called out for it a lot more because he was the only genuine world class outfield player we had by that time. Him declining when the squad was sans stars hit us hard and left a bitter taste among the fans about Rooney's decline.

One could argue his decline would have been less steep if we had a squad with a lot more near world class players on it which honestly we didnt.

The guy is an absolute legend in my eyes. So many great memories. Topped by the over head kick.
 
I said it last year how he would score bunch of goals for Everton but it doesn't he is less shite just like how he performed with us for the last 2 seasons
 
10 goals in 31 appearances for Everton this season, not world beating but really not a bad return. You'd think from some of the comments here that Rooney was Johnny Vegas trying to play top flight football.

I think he'll do well in America, for a season or two.
 
If you ever need a reminder of why Van Gaal failed, above and beyond his methods, it was relying on players like this to be his key men. Two seasons later and he's pretty much retiring (and could have before this).
 
Wow, expected him to at least another year in the Premier League before making a move like this. Such a fall from grace. Not that it's any real surprise to me having watched him for the last few years. Very much a steady decline.
 
Skills said:
How did Everton get rid of him so quick while we stuck with him 2.5 years of full shite?
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Moyes, Woodward and to a lesser extent Bobby Charlton, persuaded Rooney to stay at United by telling him he would, in time, become the club's leading scorer. While the manager who made the blunder left, the other two stayed around, and felt reluctant to back out of the deal until he had reached that benchmark, at which point, the club were quite happy for him to leave.

LVG and Mourinho were under pressure to accommodate Rooney, which doesn't mean they had to play him all the time, but find a way to let him score some goals, whether in the PL, CL or a domestic Cup competition.

So in simple terms, blame Woodward.
 
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VancouverUtdFan said:
https://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/report-wayne-rooney-serious-talks-signing-d-c-united/



Don’t mind me. Here in NA (Canada), still a treat to see legends of the game even if their past their prime which we otherwise most likely wouldn’t get a chance to see. Waiting on Zlatan and Galaxy to come to Vancouver and have caught Kaka and others in the past. Won’t be any different with Wazza especially being the United legend he is.

...still kind of crazy to think his career started crashing down around the age of 30. Who would’ve thought it’d be that soon when it’s expected to be the prime/peak for most.
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His decline started way before he hit 30.
 
17 Van der Gouw said:
10 goals in 31 appearances for Everton this season, not world beating but really not a bad return. You'd think from some of the comments here that Rooney was Johnny Vegas trying to play top flight football.

I think he'll do well in America, for a season or two.
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3 of these 10 goals came in one game.
 
elmo said:
His decline started way before he hit 30.
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People bring up the 2012 season as evidence he wasn't declining but I really think he's been on an increasing decline (slow at first) since 2010/2011. Which is scary given he was only 25/26.

Rooney in 2006-10 was a completely different player, regardless of what role he was given. Physically he just started to go and that was a huge element of his success as a player.
 
idmanager said:
Wow, way too many harsh comments. Burning out or declining in your late twenties is very normal. Rooney gets called out for it a lot more because he was the only genuine world class outfield player we had by that time. Him declining when the squad was sans stars hit us hard and left a bitter taste among the fans about Rooney's decline.

One could argue his decline would have been less steep if we had a squad with a lot more near world class players on it which honestly we didnt.

The guy is an absolute legend in my eyes. So many great memories. Topped by the over head kick.
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No it isn't.

It's very rare for a player as good as Rooney once was, and he was a special talent for a good few years, to be well into a decline by his late 20's and then totally finished by the time he's 30.

I agree with @Minimalist

His best years were from 2004 to 2010. That's when he was a genuinely brilliant player. Then from 2010 to 2012 he was declining but still scoring a good amount of goals. From 2012 onwards he's been hopeless.
 
17 Van der Gouw said:
10 goals in 31 appearances for Everton this season, not world beating but really not a bad return. You'd think from some of the comments here that Rooney was Johnny Vegas trying to play top flight football.

I think he'll do well in America, for a season or two.
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He's been benched / moved into midfield for a reason... Even though those stats looks ok-ish, he's been pretty fecking woeful anytime I've watched him play.
 
Always amazed me how many fans here were completely delusional about Rooney the last few years here. The only mistake Fergie made was not letting him go before he left to rid any new manager of that burden.
 
devilish said:
For all the talent he had he's been disappointing. His time as a WC player was shockingly short and he was finished by age 30-31. The reason for all this is he didnt took care of himself


Id say the same for maradona who i think he is the best player the world had ever seen. God gave us eyes to see and a brain to think for a reason. Unlike Rooney though maradona was the leader and lead singer for both club and country

Being a top striker at a juggernaut like United with a legend like SAf in command is hardly an achievement. FFS even Andy cole could do that. Rooney could be way better then that and he threw it away
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We talking about the same Rooney who holds the club goal scoring record?
 
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