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Usually I'm all about supporting any Manchester United player. But Rooney is pushing me lol. It feels like we play with 10 players most of the times. His touch has been horrible this season. Passing is touch and go on if it will hit our player or go to the opposition. And his finishing is terrible. Got lucky the other day that Martial hit him hard enough with the ball that it bounced into the goal.

Put the armband on Carrick or Bastian and let him sit on the bench for the next month. See if that lights a fire under him and get him performing.
 
Revan said:
Would Everton be willing to spend 300k/week on a benchwamer though? He isn't near as good as Lukaku, and not even as good as Naysmith or Barkley.
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Not sure if serious or joking. No team would spend so much on a 30 year old. Especially when he publicly stated he wanted to return to Everton.
 
Rozay said:
Let his defenders come and dismiss everything as 'Rooney hatred' again.

I said on here months ago that my suspicion was that his status in the team, at least to some degree, was included in the terms of his last contract, and was dismissed, but I stand by that notion. He offers nothing and is clearly done. I'd have Marcus Rashford or Callum Gribbin in the team ahead of him, he's that useless.

The fact that he thinks he's a 20 goal striker is a joke. Martial is a whole 5 or 6 levels above him, and if we didn't sign him, we would not make the CL next season.
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You obviously didn't watch this afternoon's U19 game...
 
Ozio said:
Saying he wouldn't get into the Everton team ahead of Naismith is ridiculous.
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Naismith can be quite effective at times playing between the lines, he caused havoc against Chelsea a couple games back.
 
This is a serious problem at the moment, it's very worrying.

We're handicapped with him in the team at the moment. He has to be got rid of in the summer.
 
Thought he was good in the first half, tap in miss aside. If he scored that people would be saying he's back in form, but obviously it was a bad miss. That type of thing just happens. His second half performance was poor though and he needs to improve a lot. I still hold faith in Rooney to come back in form, but he's been off form for the majority of the past 2 years now you'd have to say, with only a few good months here and there.
 
Maybe his missus is having a difficult pregnancy, he has the look of a man having problems elsewhere.
 
Just needs to be dropped until he has earned a place in the side. The problem there is he needs 6 games to get going after missing 1 game apparently, so he'd never get to fitness/sharpness if he is eventually benched.
 
Livewire1974 said:
Maybe his missus is having a difficult pregnancy, he has the look of a man having problems elsewhere.
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Last time he looked like this he was messing around with an escort behind his pregnant wifes back, same again?
You wouldn't rule it out...
 
He's past it, the only times he's looked even anywhere near adequate to the level required to play for us is against lower level opponents. The sooner we drop him, the better we'll be.
 
I just don't get what is happening to him suddenly. He seems to have lost fitness, technical ability and mental strength (and seemingly desire) all the same time. Even though we keep hoping that it is a temporary phenomenon, he doesn't seem to be able to show any evidence that he can turn it around.
 
IMO, the problem with Rooney is that he himself has now realized that he's quickly fading away from being a top player. And he can't deal with it. You can see that he's not only under pressure, he doesn't seem to be enjoying himself at all.

In previous seasons, when he was playing this poorly, he'd still look positive and enjoy playing.
 
UnofficialDevil said:
Schweinsteiger has been less than just "fine" hes been bad and is on £275,000 a week, but its always this stupid thread that gets bumped to moan 3 minutes into a match, its just ridiculous.
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Because for Schweinsteiger it's a bad day, but for Rooney it's the norm. Nobody cares if Rooney had a bad game, but he's been having a bad 10 games (bar Brugge), and longer before that.
 
CG1010 said:
I just don't get what is happening to him suddenly. He seems to have lost fitness, technical ability and mental strength (and seemingly desire) all the same time. Even though we keep hoping that it is a temporary phenomenon, he doesn't seem to be able to show any evidence that he can turn it around.
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I think his technical ability is normal. He just missed a sitter today. Linked okay on the penalty.

He definitely looks slower to me, though. Significantly. I think that's the issue.
 
Really really poor 2nd half from him. I was expecting him to the very least lead the team when we were being put under pressure but, he was just done. The play around the 84:45ish mark - Young takes a throw in to Schneiderlin and he is coming in field, being surrounded by 3 Wolfsburg players and Rooney is right in between them clogging up the space even more leading to Schneiderlin give away the ball. What's worse after that is even though Schneiderlin is further up the pitch, Rooney makes no effort to get back and luckily enough Schneiderlin who did get back and foul Draxler did not get a second yellow.

I started the season thinking he is going to really do well this year with the focus being back on him much like when Ronaldo left - he'll be playing with that burning desire but, either because he just doesn't have that fight left in him or his legs have really gone (or both), his performances are definitely starting to make me think - we are in a big world of hurt if the Martial bubble bursts.

Arsenal next and that's cannon fodder for him usually - hopefully todays dire performance can spur him for the game.
 
NoPace said:
I think his technical ability is normal. He just missed a sitter today. Linked okay on the penalty.

He definitely looks slower to me, though. Significantly. I think that's the issue.
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See the old video posted above. While he always was a bit inconsistent, when was the last time he was good/excellent? His passing, first touch, heading, etc., have all seemingly regressed.
 
Sky1981 said:
Because for Schweinsteiger it's a bad day, but for Rooney it's the norm. Nobody cares if Rooney had a bad game, but he's been having a bad 10 games (bar Brugge), and longer before that.
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Try 10 months and you're probably closer to how long Rooney has been having his poor form for.
 
He made a few runs tackling the Wolfsburg defenders/midfielders when everyone was tired in the end that looked like the old Rooney, but was poor for the majority of the second half.
 
Dear Rooney, please dont keep giving awesome passes to opposition players :)

Watta miss.. He should dig his head in the sand and stay there :nono:

But the captain wont be dropped. So I pray he hits the form before mid season at least.
 
Sir A1ex said:
Worrying thing for me is that I can't remember him being anything like this shite before. We all know he's had lean spells in front of goal, and spells when he's not really got into matches, but this time he's added being utterly unable to control, pass or shoot the football.
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This is almost definitely his worst spell so far, yeah. What gives me some hope is form after his transfer request in 2011 was woeful (if not as prolonged), and the bolded bit was completely applicable then, and he bounced back and produced some of the best form of his career later than season.
 
Rooney was poor last night. He's been poor for a while though, I actually can't remember when the last time he had a good game.

It's only a matter of time before we get a replacement in for him. No wonder we were apparently chasing Kane during the summer
 
I felt a bit sorry for him yesterday actually. Was quite sad to see him unable to do the things he wanted his body to do... I mean, a lot of the endeavor was there, it was just the execution, eye-foot coordination that continually let him down.
 
Not a good game from Rooney, but he's had those before while still putting away easy chances. But my goodness that shot in the first half was bloody terrible, felt bad for him when he skyed it. I'm hoping that he steps it up this weekend, there's a chance he might, seeing as he likes to score against Arsenal. Could kickstart his individual season.
 
Last time I remember him playing with some real fire in the belly was against Spurs after the "knockout headlines" were all over the tabloids. Scored a fabulous goal that day did the famous celebration and was brilliant overall. For what it's worth I think he's on a steep decline and finished as a top player but I'd like to see that fire back at least.
 
It's barely tolerable now that he has a free pass based on his showings on the pitch. Now imagine if we get to the knockout stages against a big club, and he's still lumbering about. I think LVG needs to have a good think about rather he wants to be successful here, or give into a 300k a week player that's holding back the team.
 
For me the fire in his belly has gone. He used to be a player that was passionate and went to war every game, but now he looks like he's just going through the motions and plays just because he has too.

People keep using the stat about him being a high distance cover in games, but most of that distance is covered in long runs up and down the pitch, rather than using that energy stretching defences or offering movement to recieve a pass.

I don't know if maybe his stint in midfield has confused him about what he's actually supposed to do, but the striker play between him and martial is like night and day these days. I can't believe how poorly he uses his body to shield the ball and his first touch is just so hard and lumpy, he never looks like the ball is fully under control.

It's such a shame as he used to be such a fabulous player, but for me he looks he has almost had enough, compare his desire to ronaldo's and you see the big difference.
 
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.Rossi said:
No

Although, what some of us do in our own home, whilst sitting in our armchair, is our own business :D
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I think we should, kick some arse into him, will make it easier for LVG to drop him, maybe the media will notice that Rooney isn't that golden boy nomore.

He deserves it imo, if there's any other way other than booing to let him know that we're fed up with his continuous shite performance every fecking week.
 
Spielmacher said:
Ever heard of Sgt. Wyde Techst?
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Nope

Sky1981 said:
I think we should, kick some arse into him, will make it easier for LVG to drop him, maybe the media will notice that Rooney isn't that golden boy nomore.

He deserves it imo, if there's any other way other than booing to let him know that we're fed up with his continuous shite performance every fecking week.
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The media will never ever turn on him, unless it's something to do with his personal life.
 
Brightonian said:
You obviously didn't watch this afternoon's U19 game...
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Indeed you are correct. Hasn't started the season consistently brilliant has Gribbin, but he has shown far more flashes of it than Rooney. And yes, I appreciate it's a different level.
 
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