He's spot on and more people should speak up
Times: Wayne Rooney - Man Utd lack character, heart and emotion
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True to an extent of course, effort does matter. I might get a little stick for this but I do think Brighton and Brentford are better run than us. They sign excellently and play very good styles of football. Both of them are run by footballing betting men (Tony Bloom and Mathew Benham) - it's no coincidence that they run their clubs very well given the skillset needed to be successful in betting in sports (data, analytics, excellent recruitement, finding an edge etc).
And now we maybe sell two of three players Rooney says have character 
I’m not saying Rooney or United are wrong, but it’s a strange world!
I’m not saying Rooney or United are wrong, but it’s a strange world!Don’t worry, we all knew alreadyI’ve outed myself as Piers Morgan
We are all terrified to find ourselves agreeing with himI’ve outed myself as Piers Morgan
I think its pointless because whenever a team loses, pundits like Keane or Souness say its character as if the only thing that is required for footballing success is having the biggest balls. Keane is the worst for it. Whenever United lose, he gets angry and insist that the players should have kicked someone.
Fully agree. Rooney's no guru. His only management experience in England is taking Derby down without a fight (and yes I know there were mitigating circumstances, but still, they went down without a fight with good players) and then jumped ship to the MLS. But his word is taken as gospel.
He is not wrong, but did he mention Sancho though?
Sancho is as guilty as anyone for lacking heart, fight, movement or sometimes ability in that squad. Which then made me realize that our front line was pretty depressing.
Sancho is as guilty as anyone for lacking heart, fight, movement or sometimes ability in that squad. Which then made me realize that our front line was pretty depressing.
Without a fight
No but he was “frustrated and confused” under SAF towards the end
People are noticing it more now because of their good start, but it's been a fundamental part of their approach. It was always there
Without a fight
Yes without a fight. Without the points deduction they would have finished 17th and that's with an above average Championship squad. Rooney's got so much fight in him that he jumped at the chance to join the MLS at the first opportunity rather than stay in the bearpit that is English football.
The points deduction definitely affected them outside of just looking at the points total at the end though, it hung over them the entire season and it couldn't have been easy navigating that. He did a pretty good job in galvanising the side in what are extremely difficult and unusual circumstances, there's a reason that Derby supporters wanted him to stay.
An above average championship squad? They barely had a first XI going into the season!
Rooney did well at Derby, and towards the end there was talk of manager of the year in the league - for a manager that nearly prevented a team being relegated.
Criticise all you want, but talk sense when you do it yeah?
Wayne isn't wrong about the lack of character, but he himself showed a fair amount of character deficiency in his last 4-5 seasons at OT.
This is staggeringly ignorant.
Ronaldo was always the cnut of the two, what he did at the world cup was disgraceful and prime example of Ronaldo's true face.
I thought he was exemplary during the time they were teammates. Always sacrificed himself for the team, while Ronnie was allowed to do his magic. The way he dealt with the aftermath of the Euros was top class too.
It is pretty clear that Ronaldo does not fit a team that is not moulded around him, which is not what ETH does, and his entourage has been shopping him around all summer and he's a moody cnut now. We need him gone.
And Rooney mostly talks a lot of sense nowadays. I would love it if he one day becomes the manager.
He's right.
Why did he jump ship to a league where it's impossible to get relegated instead of staying and fighting to get Derby back up then?
Made me
Same. Adored Rooney for us and wish this squad had half of his attitude, character and heart.
It takes some effort to stand out as particularly wrong on this forum but you've done it.
Try motivating a team that knows they're going down anyway due to a points deduction.
Also, Derby struggled to get 11 on the pitch at times.
And come on, I wasn't his biggest fan, especially when we held on to him and insisted on playing him well beyond his sell by date, however, Rooney had unbelievable fight as a player (who he's calling out), that cannot honestly be disputed
Don't really know where to put this...
First tweet, dear God, help...
Chills down my spine, "next year or so..."
First tweet, dear God, help...
Chills down my spine, "next year or so..."
I'd be distressed if he became our manager.
But what If he wins the Superbowl with ACDC United?
We'd be on the highway to hell
Hahahaha
He is at least doing things the right way. I was impressed with the job he did at Derby and he clearly doesn't have airs or graces - he's willing to get experience wherever rather than assuming that he deserves a top job based on name recognition alone (like so many former world class players seem to do).
That being said, he's destined to be Everton manager rather than United manager. If Lamps doesn't turn it around sharpish, maybe very soon.
I don't really see what the issue is here and why people would be concerned about it. Wayne obviously wants to manage Utd and there's nothing wrong with that, you can't be successful in life without setting your targets very high.
And you would hope that Utd wouldn't repeat the OGS mistake, managers should have to earn the right to manage Utd as managers of different clubs, not based on their playing careers. Funnily enough, I think Wayne comes across as being sharper at times than the likes of OGS, Lampard, and Gerrard from a tactical perspective and to be fair to him, he did a good job with Derby last season considering the circumstances. But he has to prove himself as a manager and I'm fairly sure he knows that himself.
On a slightly different note, I was wondering recently whether he would have been better off asking EtH could he be a member of his coaching staff rather than going for the Derby job. Too many managers (Gerrard, Lampard etc) are thrown straight in at the deep end whereas you have the likes of Arteta who learned the ropes at City under Pep. EtH could have taught Wayne a lot of things.
And you would hope that Utd wouldn't repeat the OGS mistake, managers should have to earn the right to manage Utd as managers of different clubs, not based on their playing careers. Funnily enough, I think Wayne comes across as being sharper at times than the likes of OGS, Lampard, and Gerrard from a tactical perspective and to be fair to him, he did a good job with Derby last season considering the circumstances. But he has to prove himself as a manager and I'm fairly sure he knows that himself.
On a slightly different note, I was wondering recently whether he would have been better off asking EtH could he be a member of his coaching staff rather than going for the Derby job. Too many managers (Gerrard, Lampard etc) are thrown straight in at the deep end whereas you have the likes of Arteta who learned the ropes at City under Pep. EtH could have taught Wayne a lot of things.
His words here and his journey so far clearly show he knows that
People don't like to miss an opportunity to snipe at our legends.
Wouldn't mind him as a future manager if he proves himself, going to America instead of managing over here was a weird choice for him ambitions though I think.
I don't think so, his reputation will remain in tact over here and there will always be a good opportunity waiting for him, over in America he gets to experiment, make mistakes and learn the craft of coaching away from intense media scrutiny while still at a relatively high 1st team professional standard.
It is exactly the sort of move more high profile players who want to be head coaches should make.
Fair point actually, never thought of it like that.
Man having ambitions in getting to the top of his profession sometime in the future shocker
Sounds like he could manage both United and Everton at the same time
He's clearly expecting one of these jobs based on name as he hasn't done anything close to good enough to get him any PL job.
To be fair all top flight footballers, especially ones with his profile, get jobs because of their name. He's already rejected a chance to interview at Everton once before.
Manchester United are different, he knows that if he's to have any chance of managing them he will have to earn the chance from his work at a top flight club at a very good level.