One pound? I thought I was worth more to you than that.
I'm in on the song though.
Wayne Rooney | 2012-14 Performances
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One pound? I thought I was worth more to you than that.
I'm in on the song though.
That was one of very very few games away from home where we've been very convincing. However one game is hardly enough to conclude that we could regularly play well without Rooney.
I agree I dont like him and never have, but I have never denied that he is a very good player and valuable for us, but that gets completely overlooked in the OMG someone said something bad about wazza frenzy should anyone fail to toe the party line. In this very threat I have often been complimentry about him when he has done well. For the last time:
Is he an exceptionally talented footballer
YES
Does he improve our team significantly when he plays well?
YES
When NOT playing well is he still useful to the team?
SOMETIMES.....other times he plays like twisted crossbreed of Emile Hesky and Jason Lee......(See world cup 2010 until the following January)
Do I think he is BPITW material?
No he doesnt have the mental strength requiered
Is he Utds Best player?
IMO NO Rvp is but that is a completely unanswerable question and noones answer can definitively be proved right or wrong.
Will I still think he is a thick chavy scumbag if he scores in every game from now until he retires?
YES but that doesnt mean I dont want him to do well
Am I happy when he scores?
Of course I am
Do I think he should be sold?
At this moment no.
Will there come a time when he should be?
More than likely yes.
Am I still pissed over the whole contract issue?
Yes and will remain so......I will NEVER and I do mean NEVER forget the look on SAFs face during that press conference. I know he can play the media like a fiddle when he wants to but hes not that good an actor, that hurt SAF and that is unforgivable.
Do I think he worth what we pay him?
Tough call but Im going with no, as anyone who can spend money on those ridiculous hair treatments obviously has far too much to begin with.
Some crazy defensive performance from him again.It was funny how he kept bullying Phil Neville
Brilliant today. All over the place defending attacking
VeRy good today, looks to be determined not to let nything get between us and the title.
Play his heart out, more than willing to help out defensively but his touches in the game was very poor for his standard.
He is going to tear Madrid apart and will be the one doing the winking. Playing with so much passion and desire.
Wayne Rooney the left back.
Irreplaceable really. Hope he keeps it up.
Irreplaceable really. Hope he keeps it up.
My worry is that he will do too much defensive work which will make him less of a threat like we saw in the 09 final.
Put in a good shift. Not his best going forward.
Very good performance from him today. Really put in a defensive shift for the team. Looks like Rooney is really starting to hit long run of good form at the right time of the season.
Pepe was a cnut in his Porto days too then. I didn't know it was him Rooney "elbowed". What an awful awful decision that was.
I'd forgotten about that 'elbow'. One of the worst sending-offs I've seen.
I'd forgotten about that! Doesn't look like a sending off at all. Hope he has a great game tomorrow (Rooney, not Pepe), hitting good form at the right moment.
I think in the first leg Rooney is going to be a midfielder/Left back.
Fergie will not want want to go toe-to-toe with Madrid in their yard. I think the 2 beatings against Barca and the fact the second leg is at OT will make for a defensive mindset.
Fergie will not want want to go toe-to-toe with Madrid in their yard. I think the 2 beatings against Barca and the fact the second leg is at OT will make for a defensive mindset.
I hope he bullies the shit out of Alonso tomorrow. He's got it in him to massively disrupt their attacking flow, and at his best he can combine that with maintaining a healthy goal threat himself.
They're scared of Rooney. Once he starts putting himself about, they'll pull out all the dirty tricks they know to get him send off.
wow
I'm sure Messi has scored a lot more than 14 goals in the knockout stages.
% can be misleading.
% can be misleading.
He's a lot older and a lot wiser now. He'll be more than aware of what they have planned and with the Ref being who it is, someone will have had a word in his ear already.
Shit. Poor Celtic.
26 of 56 total goals compared with Rooney's 14 of 27. Fairly meaningless comparison
Rooney is in top form at the moment, I can see him giving Alonso a lot of trouble. Van Persie is capable of leading the line on his own, which means Rooney can haunt his man at all times. I'd say he'll be our key player tomorrow. If he does his job well, we should be able to get something out of this.
Rooney labeled "the freckled daemon" by the Spanish press
TheReligion repeats phrase from another post in the same thread.
Sorry must have missed it
ave it!
The difference is now we have someone else who can still be a massive attacking threat, even if Rooney is concentrating his efforts elsewhere on the pitch.
Rooney is going to have to help a lot in midfield tonight, RVP is going to have to be the principal attacking threat.
I'd say our wingers will have to be, cause it'll be their job to actually get the ball into the box for RvP.
A worrying thought...
A worrying thought...
RVP is much better at holding the ball up than Rooney, he uses his body so much better to shield the ball, and that will allow us time to get higher up the pitch and support him.
I think in those terms we dont have to have the wingers belting up the pitch, we can knock it into his feet and rely on him to hold off the defender long enough to make more ground back up, something we havent been able to do with Rooney as CF
Strongly disagree on the first paragraph, and even if true, he doesn't get a lot of time of the ball for us anyway, and I'd wager he'll get even less against Madrid.
Rooney with his back to goal always gets robbed of posession, he cannot seem to position himself properly. He either wins a foul of gets tackled the majority of the time.
If you concentrate on this you will notice how much better RVP is at shielding the ball with his body, especially in and around the box.
Yeah, I agree. Van Persie is actually one of the best players I've ever seen at doing this.
I expect rooney to give ronaldo a 'friendly' tackle tonight.
Bloody hell that's a stretch!
What about:
Shearer, Vieri, Batistuta, Nistelrooy, Drogba, Trezeguet and that's just recent history. All were great with their back to goal.
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