They're relevant in that he's being paid the wages of someone who should be a team star player and main man. He's not just a standard squad player playing poorly; he's someone who should ideally be our best player.
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They're relevant in that he's being paid the wages of someone who should be a team star player and main man. He's not just a standard squad player playing poorly; he's someone who should ideally be our best player.
He wasn't as bad as usual. He just did nothing.
He was so off the pace it isn't funny.. got caught flat footed so many times. Bad first touch, poor hold up play, flat footed and he seems to have even lost that fiery spirit that he used to have.
Good lord that was awful again.
If he was being paid less would it make it any less frustrating how shit he's become?
I'd love to see how we'd perform without him in the team at the moment, he's not offering much
He is at Falcao's level.
No, but a player on that kind of wages should not only perform a lot better for himself, but also carry the team when it's not performing.
Nah, but the reason he is being paid highly is because he was, at one point, our best player and vital to the side. He wouldn't be anywhere near his current wages if it hadn't been for his previous form, which is of course the level he's fallen from.
He's never been the quickest but these days it looks like he's running with lead in his boots.
He does absolutely nothing. He's just completely useless.
It's so frustrating. And it means Martial is stuck out on the wing.
It's so frustrating. And it means Martial is stuck out on the wing.
I'd be embarrassed if I was Rooney going into that dressing room. That was abysmal. RvP at his worst was no way that dire.
Shouldn't be in the team, simple as that. If he has any kind of injury lay off he might not be able to get back into the team.
I wish he would bog off and never come back and he can take his besotted manager with him.
Abysmal
well put.He justified the contract he was offered with his previous performances, yea, I just don't see it as relevant to the situation now.
People keep saying a guy on those wages shouldn't be so shit, but it shouldn't matter, if we were paying him £100k a week he should still not be playing like this.
Noone should wish for an injury for a player on your own team but it's increasingly looking like the only way for LvG not to select Rooney. Even then you could not be guaranteed that Rooney won't play. Like I said, the David Moyes among footballers. He's worse than Gibson.
We genuinely appear to be playing with 10 men. He's lost his pace, his touch, his awareness it seems at times. And nobody in the mainstream punditry wants to acknowledge it. Mad.
He's absolutely fecking shite.
Going to do Chandler Bing's dance when he's dropped
Knew he would got a lot of stick on here, but I'm unsure what he did wrong? Barely got the ball played through to him.
God, he's just so poor. You'd have thought scoring on the weekend might give him a boost, but nope. He barely fecking moves anymore, he doesn't even fight like a dog how he used to.
I'm seriously close to just giving up on him.
I'm seriously close to just giving up on him.
Wasnt terrible, he just does nothing. Eehrmm.. well
He's terrible. I don't want to wish injury on anyone but if it's in his contract that he has to play then what other options are there? Might try and trip him up when he's in Waitrose.
I think people's problem with him isn't that he was necessarily doing much wrong, but more that he wasn't really doing anything at all. Even if he wasn't getting too much of the ball, he's a player who often just manages to find a way to involve himself in the game.
RVP wasn't. At all. But it'll be said that he was for some bizarre reason.
I'd take RVP over Rooney now 10 times out of 10.
He offers nothing.
This is just who he is at the moment.
This is just who he is at the moment.
Wow, he must have been shite today, after reading all this comment. Unfortunately, the only way I see Van Gaal dropping him is if he gets an injury. He has been piss poor for a long time, so people expecting him to find his form must also expect Falcao to become one of the best striker in football again.
What is most troublesome is that Martial was once again shifted out wide to incorporate Rooney.
What is most troublesome is that Martial was once again shifted out wide to incorporate Rooney.
I'm one of his biggest critics, but to be fair he hardly got any service in the first half.
Doesn't excuse the fact that he let another game pass him by and the fact that not 1 forward ball played into him resulted in us retaining possession or starting an attack from it. Movement was fairly atrocious too.
Doesn't excuse the fact that he let another game pass him by and the fact that not 1 forward ball played into him resulted in us retaining possession or starting an attack from it. Movement was fairly atrocious too.
Oh I agree 100% but people on here seem to think that this season's Rooney is like last season's RvP which is nonsense.
The problem is he doesn't have the technical ability to fall back on. Once you take the pitbull nature out of Rooney, you're left with an abysmal player - the player we're seeing now.
People keep saying this but there is no movement from him. It is like he is scared to run in behind. The difference between us with him up top as opposed to when Martial is up top moving around is absurd.
I don't think he is past it as a footballer, but he is not a central striker anymore - nor has he ever been to be honest. He was always best running at defenders but he has lost the pace. He needs to find where is best for him on the pitch now, but it certainly is not as a main striker.
Okay I understand that point... if he drops deeper to get involved in the play, he gets slated for not playing as a 'proper' striker. It's difficult to play well as a striker the way we are set up. We struggle to pass the ball with any purpose in the final third.
Wasn't terrible at all tonight. He barely got a kick and was anonymous so it's quite hard to judge
Often a forward in away games will be left totally isolated and in turn ineffective and that's what happens tonight
That's not excusing his poor form in general though
Often a forward in away games will be left totally isolated and in turn ineffective and that's what happens tonight
That's not excusing his poor form in general though
it's actually mental. I'm watching RTE at the moment and they're saying Rooney is finding it hard to perform as he isn't get the service he wants? it's not just English media it seems. It's blowing my mind how much everyone in the media is making excuses for him. It's like everyone here is on another planet to everyone else.
I'm so sick of coming to this thread game after game giving out about the same things, but he is absolute garbage.
Martial has sometimes been finding a way to do so.
And besides that, even when Rooney does get onto the ball, it's hard to ignore the fact that he's beginning to look more and more lethargic whenever he's on the ball. He's slow, lumbering and nowhere near as dynamic as he was in his younger days. Granted, even Rooney in his prime had games or spells where his touch went to shite, but it seems to be the norm at the moment which makes it a lot more concerning.
He truly is terrible an absymal player. We were playing with 10 men. Thats why it was so easy for Cska to defend when your CF cant hold the ball up and bring others into the game then you can spend all your time focusing on marking players like Martial out of the game. It's just useless.
meh - undroppable by LVG.
Not true regarding tonight. He just managed to feck up everything whenever he had the ball. Remember the situation late in the game where he had an easy header to Fellaini for him to completely miss the ball? Sums up Rooney anno 2015. Give him an ambassador role at the club instead. Pay him 400k if he retires today. I don't care how much money the club has to spend, I just want him as far away from the team as possible.
It's been mentioned quite a few times that it's sad to see such decline with a Manchester United legend, which is true, but it's way past sad and more in the infuriating category.
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