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- Goals
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- Assists
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- Yellow cards
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- Red cards
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Feels like he's been out for ages.
..because we seem half the team without him. Though they are very different players, Rooney is as important to the team as Roy Keane was....
Rooney's a necessity.
We need Rooney back ASAP.
It's pretty obvious we miss him. He may not have the technical ability as Mata but he gives us drive and passion; a presence on the pitch. He would have been handy for the WBA game.
Christ, the stick he gets when he plays, and how people miss him when absent, he really is one of the most divided figures in world football. Foreign players rave about him, yet we call him bellow top quality. Rival teams downplay him, but would absolutely kill to have him starting for them. Chelsea would have smashed the league last year if we sold him to them.
When the other team sits back and defends like West Brom did, Rooney becomes a decent 10, in that he's an incredible goal threat from that position, and it's tough to get a 10 on the ball against a packed D anyways, or at least Mata can't seem to do it.
The game seemed to be calling out for a player like him to come on for mata or Van persie. Someone who looks to get involved and a driving force if you will to get us that but extra to get a goal. I was hoping mata or Van persie would step up a bit in his absence but they've both been shite, so it shows how much we need him.
Our problems have little to do with Rooney's presence or absence. He played against Burnley, Sunderland and Leicester and we still failed to win. This much will become clear when he returns. Neither Rooney nor the other forwards have been world class over the last 18 months. The situation with our forwards is a bit like the situation with our defenders from 2-3 seasons ago. Their reputation is way bigger than their current ability.
He doesn't need to do great to be a much better option than Rvp or Mata right now. And he's been having a very good season for us and contributes in terms of goals, assists as well as some work rate upfront and presence which neither RvP or Mata provide.
Considering how van Persie and Mata are playing even Chicharito would be helpful.
Yeah but his link up isn't as good as Mata, lads!
We'll be a much better team going forwards with Rooney in the team than we are without him. Always been that way and is no different this season. As soon as Di Maria started playing we've produced spells of sensational attacking football (albeit not for 90 minutes yet). That's been notable by it's absence in our last two games. No great surprise but frustrating all the same.
And the pendulum swings into the other direction...
Rooney has always been undervalued in this forum, people were saying how Mata is a better no.10 well that theory has been proven wrong. I'm not saying Rooney would have won us the game yesterday but would have offered a lot more than Mata did going forward as well in defence.
He's the only football players birthday I know because its the same as mine, might ring him after to go for a few drinks because he's no match this weekend
Happy birthday mateThey'd better make him a fecking cake...
Wish him to avoid any serious injuries and mental toughness in the more difficult moments.
You have to be truly blind not to see the importance of this player in the team. He has always been important for us, since 2005.
He's back and no one took their chance to replace him. Hoping he will be fired up and ready.
Agreed.
Apparently he's injured.
What do out players do in training
Oh for the love of feck.
FFS. This is getting ridiculous.
The feck? What is it with people posting random rumours without any source? Seems to be constantly happening these days.
Seems to be coming from Alex someone or other at ESPN, according to tweets in the match thread.
Is this injury legit? There is so much random BS popping up in every thread, it's hard to know.
so he gets injured as soon as he's available ffsHot, cold and boiling from the same tap?!
Nothing on the Torygraph website and no tweets from their journos that I can see.
Anyhoo, having argued that we're clearly a better team with him playing (and I stand by that) we're arguably better able to cope without him than we ever have in his United career before. So no need to panic.
Anyhoo, having argued that we're clearly a better team with him playing (and I stand by that) we're arguably better able to cope without him than we ever have in his United career before. So no need to panic.
Really hope it's some mind-games bullshit.
That front page is definitely real as @suttonnick has tweeted it
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