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4 or five games.......not half a season
Worryingly, I thought he stuck out like a sore thumb for the England attack today, and not in a good way. Sterling, Sturridge and Ox looked much much better players. He just constantly lost the ball. I think he's a busted flush in all honesty, and we've seen the best of Wayne.
And if he is criticised they will say we 'hate' him.
He, and his army of blind defenders, are finding it increasingly difficult to explain why he walks into the team for club and country by default.
England demonstrates clearly the issue I have with Wayne Rooney. We are not talking about Lionel Messi here, why can he not be dropped? Sturridge is ahead as the 9 and Sterling is clearly superior as the 10. The choice is straightforward. We will have similar issues at United.
He, and his army of blind defenders, are finding it increasingly difficult to explain why he walks into the team for club and country by default.
England demonstrates clearly the issue I have with Wayne Rooney. We are not talking about Lionel Messi here, why can he not be dropped? Sturridge is ahead as the 9 and Sterling is clearly superior as the 10. The choice is straightforward. We will have similar issues at United.
He's just so uninspiring at times. Worrying for our captain.
Rooney should retire from England. England needs a new scapegoat.
http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-F...=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=ManUtd
This is embarassing.
This is embarassing.
At times he struggles with the absolute basics of football, controlling and shielding the ball.
Rooney needs to be dropped for Club and Country. He simply isn't good enough at the moment.
I think the best thing for Rooney would be to stay up top and not be involved in the play at all and hence escape criticism.
Problem for club and country.
And he is captain for both.
And he is captain for both.
Must be all those clueless managers, right? Roy Hodgson, Louis Van Gaal...
There was a reason Fergie wanted rid, he knew he was done. Now we're stuck with him for the next 4 years on £300K p/w.
Why should he escape criticism? He is taking the piss with these performances of late.
I don't think there is another supposedly "top" player who can look as bad as Rooney when it comes to losing the basics of football.
http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-F...=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=ManUtd
This is embarassing.
They're including pre-season, as you can see if you actually read what you linked to. Slim pickings for player of the month, obviously, but it's getting boring the way United fans will use any possible excuse to slag off the club captain.
Oh, that stupid argument again. The age old 'are you saying you know more than Fergie?'.
Perhaps you're right, only an idiot from the internet like me would have Sterling ahead of Rooney in the 10 role. I imagine I should return to Football Manager now right?
The difference between him and lets say Sturridge becomes clearer every week, he does literally nothing good with the ball and brings it back all the time. Its time for him to be dropped.
He's not really a 'top' player anymore though. He's been living off his name and reputation for a good few years now.
Now you mention it...
Mata and Van Persie have both been worse than him and yet it's the Rooney thread that gets bumped up even while his first misplaced pass of the match is still midair. With Cleverley gone, looks like United fans have found a new scapegoat.
Right.
This is why I used inverted comas.
He's fecked and everyone knows it. Spends too many games playing like a pub league player and occasionally has his moments of brilliance in games. World class is out the window, top class is questionable now
Sterling is better when he is played out wide.
Sterling is in much better form right now. Play him in the hole and Sturridge up front. Rooney to the left or the bench.
He was absolutely dreadful tonight as he has been for Utd so far this season. He just looks so slow and lethargic, I've been wanting him dropped for Utd when the international break is finished but I'm not even sure he deserves to be starting for England any more either.
His penalty was good at least.
His penalty was good at least.
Some people take a dig at him for tedious reasons but don't you agree that he seems to have declined as a footballer? I am not sure what is wrong either.
He was poor in the build up tonight, slowed everything down as if he was still playing with Mata and RVP.
Rooney looked good in pre season when he had a good team around him. I reckon he'll be back to his best when our players return from injury and we start creating more in the final third.
Yet some fans give out to other fans for criticising him.
Falcao is a better striker than Rooney and Mata and Januzaj are better #10's. Ya have to admit that Rooney is putting in some pretty poor performances recently and they are becoming more frequent.
I don't understand how someone as talented as Rooney can sometimes play the game like its completely foreign to him. His first touch is dreadful at times and he slows down so many attacks. Its almost as if he's out of energy as he starts the game.
It's just kinda painful to see that after his transfer requests, his sub par performances for over 2 years now, bar a few months in 2013, that he simply isn't that good anymore and still on a huge contract. We could've easily gotten rid of him in 2013. Rooneys time is over, Scholes and SAF were right about him and honestly it saddens me to see him in this state already. I mean the explosive Rooney has gone years ago, but he still was a world class striker. Now he is just a goodish striker, that lives of his great reputation.
Has Mata really been any better there? Rooney would be criticised for putting in Mata-esque performances. And Januzaj definitely isn't a better #10 either. And as for Falcao being a better striker, let's just see how he's playing after the injury and how he adjusts to the league before we decide he's better than Rooney and Rvp?
Fergie too. Because Rooney has never actually been any good. They've all been duped. His loveable scouse charm has fooled 'em all into playing him, despite the fact he can't play football. Fergie finally realized it, though - after ten years or so, Rooney having nearly cost us multiple trophies (but we managed to scrape through, in spite of his obvious ineptness). Moyes (not having consulted Fergie) was brain dead, though, and personally made sure we gave him a new five year contract. Which forced the typically timid and passive Louis Van Gaal to make the horrible cnut captain of our team.
He will be the death of United one of these days, the signs have been there (in spite of us winning the league for fun, winning a CL final and featuring in two more) from the day he arrived.
Absolute gash, I don't care if he's captain if he isn't performing then he shouldn't start.
Barely a few weeks back he was looking great in pre-season. Slim, fit and scoring and creating brilliant goals. A few games later he's not played well in three games as part of a misfiring club team (along with other quality players) and has one quiet game for England. The desperation that United fans have to write his obituary as a footballer is fvcking mental, it really is.
He obviously isn't though. He played his best stuff last season in the hole. Which culminated in him starting the WC there and being England's best player against Italy, yet being shifted the following game because everyone insisted that it was not an arrangement that works best for Rooney.
If the team was picked on merit, and by merit, I don't mean what you have done years ago, I mean merit in the sense of what has made Cahill a regular over the last year or got Stones a cap tonight - Rooney would be a sub. The embarrassing thing about it is that everyone knows it now. All the media are saying it, while some are politely saying in, but not saying it. Then there is a section of United fans who have devised a theory that Rooney is actually outstanding and his name has probably been drawn out of a hat as England's scapegoat , and has nothing at all to do with his actual performances.
Erm, no they are not. Even if they are(and they aren't), there was just one preseason game in august(notice the player of the month-august in the tittle), vs Valencia, and he was pretty average in that game too.
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