Has there even been a single quote from Rooney? Isn't that what a lot of the fanbase is falling over themselves to see? Some actual here or there comments from Rooney?
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If we were looking for a swap deal regarding a midfielder - it would be Ramires. More dynamic. But it won't happen anyway.
Cash or nothing will be the car I'm sure
No thanks, the couple of knee injuries he had, has done for him.
Is there a reason behind his silence? You will say he doesn't have to answer to the media but the club have just rejected a bid for him, If he has no intention of leaving he should break the silence.
Should he be driving with a injured shoulder.
Mata and Ramires. After we bring Ronaldo back, we'd be fecking sorted.
Another one who appears to be blind to Rooney's obvious PR tactics. The whole thing is made up and Rooney wants to stay then? Rooney's tired of all the media speculation and just wants to keep himself to himself? Actually wr8 probably believes that.
Well past it now. The only Chelsea players I would entertain having here are Mata, Oscar, Hazard and Lukaku (possibly Ramires, though I'm not his biggest fan)... and I don't think they'd part with any of them.
Out of curiosity, what reliability has "Sports Direct News"? Is it one of those garbage sites with made up stories?
Thanks, Portuguese press was using them as a source for a possible transfer of Jackson Martinez to United in case Rooney leaves, but I went to the site and didn't find it.
That's less than £30m they just offered us, Essien can't be worth more than £5m. He's done.
Well what it has done is shift all the attention this summer off Moyes' arrival and onto Rooney.
If Moyes is expected to be a competent United manager then dealing with this sort of issue will have to be well within his ability.
I don't know.. Do you know? Because I was asking you if there has been any spoken word from Rooney himself...
"obvious PR tactics.." kind of sounds to me like 'A source close to me says..'
Should he step out and give you a couple of quid at the tollbooth if he's behind you since you're taking to long rummaging around in your glovebox for change?
Yeah he should break the silence I agree with that but I don't really feel he needs to come out and do it pronto just to relieve a few fans who've gone a bit mental over this whole thing. Plus his name remains up in lights. Any PR department would be loving this outrageous coverage.
I agree. And it should have been dealt with very early on. None of this diplomatic shite of "We hope he'll be joining up with the squad soon" or whatever. Moyes should have got him into an empty room and stepped on his neck in a pair of golf shoes.
I think it's more than a few fans, anyone with an interest in football has been watching this story and it wouldn't be 'pronto' as this saga has been going on for almost four months. Do you not think it would make Moyes job a lot easier if he came out and said that he was staying at the club?
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Not subtle enough wummery, sorry.
No, I think the club's fed up of him and want rid and that's being made clear to Rooney. The "we wont sell him" etc is just a ploy to get the best money possible for him.
Paul Ince needs to pipe himself down and not talk about things that don't concern him
How unlike Paul...
What did he say?
Bit of a slip up from Sky here:
He only said what others are saying here. Wayne needs to make his intentions public.
If Rooney always was leaving, this might well have been an attempt to take it on his own cape by Fergie. And I think that's why he went about it the way he did.
I wish Roman would pull a crazy transfer madness, like Torres signing, and offer us Mata plus money for Wayne. Lets wait a little more and see if he goes full muppet.
i think he's been told to keep quiet by the club so as to not affect their bargaining position. I think we've agreed to grant his move but told him to shut the feck up whilst we arrange the best deal for us and if this is the case, fair play to him for doing just that. this has deadline day deal written all over it
he was a knob a couple of years back and was rightly criticised for it but I dont see what he's done to stoke anything up this summer at all
do hope we ship him off abroad though
he was a knob a couple of years back and was rightly criticised for it but I dont see what he's done to stoke anything up this summer at all
do hope we ship him off abroad though
Lou Macari has said the same thing. It doesn't matter who is saying it, Wayne Rooney should be man enough to let people know where he wants to be and where his heart is.
He's so tied up into his agents that he just doesn't do anything for himself other than play football and knock up his missus. Angry and Confused was quite vague for starters, if a grown man was that angry and confused by what Moyes said he would've let everyone know his actual intentions by now.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I don't think he's a scumbag or a cnut or anything like that, I think he's stupid and naive. Boy in a mans body.
He's so tied up into his agents that he just doesn't do anything for himself other than play football and knock up his missus. Angry and Confused was quite vague for starters, if a grown man was that angry and confused by what Moyes said he would've let everyone know his actual intentions by now.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I don't think he's a scumbag or a cnut or anything like that, I think he's stupid and naive. Boy in a mans body.
We should sell him to arsenal, they bid £40m for Suarez they can bid £40m for Rooney.
They can, but accommodating his wages is a different matter.
It would be so much more ideal selling him there though.
As mentioned, they would NEVER pay his wages. Their wage structure seems to revolve around paying all their players around the same kind of amount. Rooney would be on twice as much as anyone else.
I don't think that it is important what club thought at that time. As it is I don't think that it is wise losing 60m just because we don't want him to join Chelsea
Ed was supposed to say that, but I doubt that this is the truth.
What we think and bother is unimportant at the end of the day and doesn't change anything but anyway I think that it is better to spend 60m on signing player/improving facilities/reducing debt/increasing wages to some players who want to play for us than in Rooney.
Rooney will go to World Cup regardless how much he play or how good (or bad) he play. Woy won't drop him. My replies were to people who were saying that it is better to not play him for two years (losing around 60m) than to send him to Chelsea
And he has done exactly that so far. Official sound bites coming from the club illustrate a manager in complete control of this situation and who might I add appears to have adopted the best interests of the club in :
1) Refusing to cede to the player's apparent demands for a transfer
2) Outlined his own vision of the role he expects the player to play in the coming season
3) Not letting one player distract the team's preparations for the forthcoming season by keeping him as far away as possible from the team's pre-season games through a combination of various pretexts and specially arranged matches in which when the said player has participated, have largely been low profile and behind closed doors. This has been crucial in not stocking the media circus around the player which may have otherwise engulfed our preparations.
4) Made it abundantly clear of the existence of a contract between the club and the player thus implicitly reiterating the value of such contract and other terms involved. This has in return limited the player's options to hiding behind the back of heresy proliferated largely by his advisers rather than the player mouthing off himself.
5) In doing the above, Moyes has made it clear to Rooney, his advisers and Chelsea of the club's reluctance to entertain a transfer unless it feels comfortable in doing so. This has been evident in the swift manner with which we have moved to reject their bids clearly stating our position and/or valuation of the player and above all showing who actually calls the shots in this scenario.
The bottom line is, the club continues to retain the luxury of dictating the terms of engagement in this whole saga and the player is probably aware of that, hence the hesitancy to come forward himself. United can afford NOT selling and can even opt for Di Canio-esques tactics in disciplining the player should he step out of line and NOT abide by his contract.
My take is that eventually, the injury excuses will run their course and the club will soon cease to protect the player and demand some kind of return from his employment here and in the event he fails to produce what is required of him, then Moyes may either ship him out or make his life a misery in ways Rooney has probably never imagined.
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