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2014-15 Performances

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5.9 Season Average Rating
Appearances
37
Goals
14
Assists
6
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4
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1
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Devil may care said:
I'm not going to blame him for the performances when he's way out of position, this isn't even an AM or CM role, it's RM, Becks old role.
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Yes, it was another position he was asked to play. It's one thing to sacrifice yourself for the good of the team and another to make a change for changes' sake.
 
He's not playing in midfield. The few games where he played well there he had a properly defined role. He was a proper box to box CM.

Now he's playing in some sort of hybrid DM/AM/Wing position.
 
The problem with Rooney in midfield is that Rooney scores quite a lot of important goals over a whole season, match winning goals at times as well. We are obviously missing that with him in midfield which makes this whole situation even worse.
 
Orton said:
Well it Is a problem since he sees more of the ball than any other player and continues to pick easy passes out wide and ignore strikers runs. He's predictable and slow on the ball and other teams find him easy to play against. Don't know if he would even be that good up front right now. Been crap since newcastle.
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What runs?
 
kouroux said:
Yes, it was another position he was asked to play. It's one thing to sacrifice yourself for the good of the team and another to make a change for changes' sake.
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I see so many blaming him, plenty of us have said for ages he doesn't have the passing game to play in midfield so there should be no surprise he's struggling out at RM, he's so far out of position he looks lost.
 
In our last 6 seasons hes probably been involved(assits + goals) in average 20 goals per season

Now hes not providing that, plus hes anonymous in midfield and is taking up a proper midfielders place, and imbalancing the team, and our play

Not his fault of course, LVG thinks hes found the next schweinsteiger
 
LeftyBlaster said:
No excuses, his finishing was piss poor. But his overall play was better. Made the runs expected of him, and held up play well, played in Falcao for a simple finish.
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And Van Persie, as has been said, was playing in his favoured position. Rooney wasn't, and hasn't been for a good a whole. This is surely some important context to be taken into account when assessing their respective performances. Even then, RvP hasn't been looking much better, if he's even been looking better at all.
 
He must be sad right now, wiping his tears with 300k he's getting this week. Next week he'll be a different improved player.
 
Devil may care said:
I see so many blaming him, plenty of us have said for ages he doesn't have the passing game to play in midfield so there should be no surprise he's struggling out at RM, he's so far out of position he looks lost.
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His passing is average but can be good at times, which was a bonus when he was playing much more advanced as an attacker. In midfield, consistency is everything and he is the least consistent passer of the team.
 
NessunDorma said:
And Van Persie, as has been said, was playing in his favoured position. Rooney wasn't, and hasn't been for a good a whole. This is surely some important context to be taken into account when assessing their respective performances. Even then, RvP hasn't been looking much better, if he's even been looking better at all.
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I'm not blaming him for being played out of position. I'm simply pointing out, IMO, that he was very poor today. Some mistakes like giving the ball away in our own half the way he did are inexcusable from anyone regardless of where you're being played. His lack of awareness and intelligence in midfielder that hampers us is on Louis since he insists of keeping the actual midfielders on the bench.
 
roykeane19 said:
In our last 6 seasons hes probably been involved(assits + goals) in average 20 goals per season

Now hes not providing that, plus hes anonymous in midfield and is taking up a proper midfielders place, and imbalancing the team, and our play

Not his fault of course, LVG thinks hes found the next schweinsteiger
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He was comfortably our best combined assistor/scorer per 90 this season as well, until LvG decided to start playing him as an orthodox midfielder. You can hardly blame him for not racking up his usual numbers when he seems to spend as much time defending his own box as he does attacking the oppositions.
 
For a player who earns as much as he does and is so highly rated by many he should be performing much better, whether he plays in midfield or not.
 
NessunDorma said:
He was comfortably our best combined assistor/scorer per 90 this season as well, until LvG decided to start playing him as an orthodox midfielder. You can hardly blame him for not racking up his usual numbers when he seems to spend as much time defending his own box as he does attacking the oppositions.
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I probably worded it wrong, but yh what I meant was hes not providing that anymore due to LVG playing him in midfield
 
kouroux said:
His passing is average but can be good at times, which was a bonus when he was playing much more advanced as an attacker. In midfield, consistency is everything and he is the least consistent passer of the team.
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Exactly, playing CM is about the percentage pass most of the time, moving the pieces around and creating the angles and picking the right time to make the cutting forward pass, it's a role for patience and accuracy, Rooney has a nice inside-out long pass and a chip pass that work for a SS or an AM, put not as a proper CM.
 
Needs to lead the line on his own, with Di Maria and Adnan supporting him as inside forwards.
 
I just feel our poor attacking zombie football over the recent years has coincided with him being made the focal point of our team. When he's played as a striker over the last seasons he has mostly been a poacher, his first touch is mostly awful, he doesn't seem to be too clever in tight situations. He seems like he's programmed, only does what he knows best, mostly passing it to the right flank.

In midfield he stifles our already poor play, everytime there is an obvious short pass, either sideways or forward he seems to look for the easy back pass. He isn't the pacy physical beast he once was, he has become overrated and now he seems yet again undroppable.

Granted we look almost equally inept without him, but thats down to our attacking play being set up at a slow pace with every one of our strikers awfully slow. For me we just need a total revamp of our front two, we should go for pace and power that just seems beyond the reach of RVP, Rooney and Falcao. Pace is so important in the modern game.
 
Time for him rvp and falcao to go, no more big undroppable names, we need players with some hunger and desire to prove themselves
 
He is a striker and that's exactly where he should be playing.
 
This midfield experiment needs to stop, for the sake of balance and options to our defence.

Rooney provides very little in midfield but for a burst of energy going backwards after he balls things up. He's not mobile enough to support Valencia with roaming options to pass to progressively, and Lord knows Antonio needs options.

Sadly, nor is Rooney an astute enough passer of the ball to justify the times he gets it. It's either a Hollywood ball sideways or lay it off and either run at goal with his strikers instinct or watch everyone else try something.

Drop one of Falcao or RVP and stick him up front. Bring Herrera in and try progressive midfield play and balance for the next few games, or Fellaini for physicality. The only worry with Fellaini is that his link up with Valencia is woeful at times.
 
Being criminally wasted particularly when you see the two has-beens we have playing where he should be.
 
For the first time ever I would actually agree with him if he were to have another one of his stroppy episodes.

He's being wasted. It's difficult to criticise him when he's playing in a position he can never excel.
 
back to his absolutely worst performances. Looks like pub player in his 40's at times. Should be benched anyway and if he needs to play bench Falcao and Persie and play Rooney and Wilson up front. Rooney was good as striker with any of his partners so I guess he could work well with Wilson or at least better than this shite..
 
Was reading an article in the Observer this morning where Van Gaal was talking about converting Reiziger, Rijkaard and Davids to different positions. I really think we just have to get used to Rooney the midfielder now.
 
Pexbo said:
Drop him full stop. He's well out of form and needs a massive kick up the arse.
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Thank you Pexbo. Drop him and watch him come off the bench all firing. He's too bloody comfortable at the moment knowing he's not fighting for his place.
 
Rooney has positively killed West Ham as a striker in recent years, yet he's so far behind play up front today that he's frozen out of the game. He also needs to quit with those blind lobs towards our defenders when he has no outlet.
 
Walters_19_MuFc said:
What runs?
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Tbf Rooney does more often than not ignore the strikers runs (however few they may be), I've seen it. He passes it back or out to the wings and the attack breaks down.
 
Another shocking performance in midfield today, not surprised really. He isn't a midfielder and should not be playing there, the experiment by LVG has failed.

The worst thing for me is that Rooney, alongside RVP NEVER get subbed no matter how bad they play, Rooney should of been replaced by Herrera today and RVP should of came off for Wilson.
 
JoaquinJoaquin said:
Another shocking performance in midfield today, not surprised really. He isn't a midfielder and should not be playing there, the experiment by LVG has failed.

The worst thing for me is that Rooney, alongside RVP NEVER get subbed no matter how bad they play, Rooney should of been replaced by Herrera today and RVP should of came off for Wilson.
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In his defence, he'd already brought Fellaini on and we only played for 94 minutes. That's not enough time to make 3 subs.
 
Kag said:
For the first time ever I would actually agree with him if he were to have another one of his stroppy episodes.

He's being wasted. It's difficult to criticise him when he's playing in a position he can never excel.
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No its not difficult, he is playing shit regardless what his position is.

There was a time today we were countering and he had the ball, he had an easy pass into Di Marias path but he somehow managed to over hit it. I couldnt believe it..
 
Wait till he plays up front again and everyone gets to see how sloppy his touch is. To be honest, he isn't as creative as Van Persie, isn't as good technically at all. I think Van Persie is a better finisher also. Rooney needs to play up top with another striker, no point playing him there by himself. Personally, I want to see him up top instead of Falcao and fit Herrera in. Rooney is average in midfield, but he isn't the full shilling up front either. He's in his usual run of 7/8 rubbish performances at the moment too.
 
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