Wayne Rooney | 2012-14 Performances

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Garethw said:
We should be strengthening the squad this summer not weakening it.

Losing Rooney will be a massive blow. I just hope we know what we are doing.
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I bet my ass that if we let Rooney go Kagawa behind Van Persie will be the surprise feat of the season.
 
I was re-reading all the reported stories last night regarding Rooney and noticed really there was one person (the sky reporter) that claimed to have heard about Rooney being "angry and confused". After that it was other journos paraphrasing what he said or making their stories fit with what Moyes had said with what Sky reported.

There was even one where apparently the United players knew back in March that Rooney wanted to leave - so the whole time they knew but, then on the day one sensational "story" broke, they suddenly bring to light that players knew back in March - convenient.

Usually on here when 1 journo breaks a story and no one else corroborates it, it's looked upon with serious doubt but, in this case, maybe due to a lot of pent up anger from 2010 and the SAF statements at the end of last season regarding Rooney, a lot of latched on to what was reported yesterday as unimpeachable fact.
 
For those who don't know about John....no...he is not on a wum. He has never wummed when talking about Rooney, and funnily enough, has actually been more dramatic in the past. If wr8 believes himself to be Rooney's biggest fan, which he probably does, John sincerely thinks he is Rooney's son. If it sounds like he is broken, well that's because he is broken. Now leave his dad alone.
 
I'd take £XXm + Mata for him.


RVP​
Mata - Kagawa - Nani​
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Fabregas - Carrick​


Yeah, I'd be happy with that.
 
Untied said:
I was being sarcastic. As you say no sensible person gave a shit about the Twitter bio. The story erupted because of the greater concern that Rooney wanted to leave.

My point was Rooney was happy to deny a press story, but he chose to deny something that was a side issue.

For you, and others, that seem to think the story is a fabrication, what do you think is actually going on with Rooney? Given the lack of a denial or any public attempt at quelling speculation Rooney presumably does want to leave even though the stories saying so are fake?
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Ah sorry that sarcasm flew right over my head. It's been an irritable transfer season for me so far...

Like I say, I don't read much into lack of denials. These days Rooney could utterly deny that there's any chance of him moving one day and within a week, the media would find something else and use it to raise the question again. We'd see headlines like 'Rooney refuses to sign contract despite denying he wants to leave' just because there was no news about the contract being signed.

I don't think he's entirely happy here, that much is true. I also don't think he'd ever give a full denial of anything because agents, particularly agents like Stretford, know that denying anything outright weakens your position in terms of negotiation. Players almost never do it nowadays - the fact that Fabregas has is what makes me so sure he's going nowhere.

But I don't think Rooney ever 'wanted to leave' as definitively as people claim. I think, basically, he's a dim lad who's been at this club since he was 18 (and therefore doesn't really know what it's like elsewhere) and who doesn't really know how to deal with it when things aren't going well. He was dropped from the Madrid game for tactical reasons - whilst it hasn't been his best season, he's still more than good enough to be an automatic starter for us, even if he has to be squeezed into an awkward position. But Fergie opted for Welbeck's defensive work-rate and ability to keep the ball under pressure, which was a good call. That said, I don't think Rooney is the level-headed sort who would really get that - he'd have been gutted to be left out, and perhaps (with lots of help from the media vultures stirring shit up) started to feel a bit isolated and unwanted.

Whether he ever really handed in an actual transfer request, I don't know. I'm tempted to believe that all he originally did was ask why he was being left out and benched so much, and whether Fergie wanted rid of him. From there, possibly, it escalated, but again I don't think he's had a clear idea in his mind what he wants to do - he's just unhappy, and throwing a childish strop. However, I'm pretty confident that the current 'angry and confused' stuff is utter bullshit. Moyes' comments did not imply that Rooney's going to be benched for RVP, much as the Fail etc want to see it that way. And Rooney's 'gutted to be leaving the tour injured, been training well' tweet sounded very much to me like someone who'd decided to put his head down, work hard and see what happened, which is the same thing that Moyes had been saying about him.

So I think there was a time when there was a chance of him leaving, but he never definitely wanted out and he certainly doesn't now. And I'm certain the club don't want to let him go either. We'll see, anyway.
 
Hectic said:
For those who don't know about John....no...he is not on a wum. He has never wummed when talking about Rooney, and funnily enough, has actually been more dramatic in the past. If wr8 believes himself to be Rooney's biggest fan, which he probably does, John sincerely thinks he is Rooney's son. If it sounds like he is broken, well that's because he is broken. Now leave his dad alone.
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:lol: so that was a genuine comment :eek:
 
Adrian Durham is making for some hilarious listening right now.

"I feel sorry for Wayne Rooney. His manager is on the other side of the world saying all sorts of things about him."

"It's not about the money. He wants to play football and score goals."

"He played against Real Madrid in the first leg and they drew. He didn't play in the second leg, they lost."
 
Hectic said:
For those who don't know about John....no...he is not on a wum. He has never wummed when talking about Rooney, and funnily enough, has actually been more dramatic in the past. If wr8 believes himself to be Rooney's biggest fan, which he probably does, John sincerely thinks he is Rooney's son. If it sounds like he is broken, well that's because he is broken. Now leave his dad alone.
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:lol::lol::lol::lol:
 
Shane88 said:
Adrian Durham is making for some hilarious listening right now.

"I feel sorry for Wayne Rooney. His manager is on the other side of the world saying all sorts of things about him."

"It's not about the money. He wants to play football and score goals."

"He played against Real Madrid in the first leg and they drew. He didn't play in the second leg, they lost."
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:lol::wenger:
 
Shane88 said:
Adrian Durham is making for some hilarious listening right now.

"I feel sorry for Wayne Rooney. His manager is on the other side of the world saying all sorts of things about him."

"It's not about the money. He wants to play football and score goals."

"He played against Real Madrid in the first leg and they drew. He didn't play in the second leg, they lost."
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Can't argue with logic like that :lol:
 
He really needs to stop putting on his cape and yelling, "I'm off to do transfer business," then bolting out of the place.
 
We should propose a Rooney - Fabregas exchange deal to Barça. Both parties satisfied
 
Mourinho trying the Pep/Thiago strategy

By making that statement, its true our Mata +£10m was basically a 'feck you'.

What fun
 
Ive only started listening to Talksport recently since I've nothing better to do at work, but is Durham always such a knob?
 
BD94 said:
Ive only started listening to Talksport recently since I've nothing better to do at work, but is Durham always such a knob?
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Yeah but he only does it so people phone in and argue with him.
 
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