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2015-16 Performances

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dwd said:
He can't exactly walk out or quit the club, why would he? Would you if you were on his money?

This is all on LVG for me. He has to bench him ASAP. The longer this continues, the more pressure it is going to put on Rooney, himself and the club.
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I would personally be ashamed to take all that money for doing feck all. It's not in my DNA. However, I understand that footballers are very very different people.

Yes LVG should take some of the blame for playing him, but we don't know what goes on behind the scenes - I don't think it's that easy. Nevertheless, Louis must put his ass on the bench. I don't care if Rooney keeps showing everyone how shite he is, but I do care about the rest of the players, the fans and of course the club - so yes LVG needs to get his big balls out and do the right thing. It's indefensible to keep playing Rooney.
 
Jazz said:
I would personally be ashamed to take all that money for doing feck all. It's not in my DNA. However, I understand that footballers are very very different people.

Yes LVG should take some of the blame for playing him, but we don't know what goes on behind the scenes - I don't think it's that easy. Nevertheless, Louis must put his ass on the bench. I don't care if Rooney keeps showing everyone how shite he is, but I do care about the rest of the players, the fans and of course the club - so yes LVG needs to get his big balls out and do the right thing. It's indefensible to keep playing Rooney.
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I think LVG is terrified of the disharmony that Rooney being benched would cause to the team morale. We are stuck between a rock and a hard place until the transfer window I reckon. If he's not sold in the summer then I give up.
 
Thing is though it's not Rooney's fault, he peaked ages ago yet the decision was taken to tie him down to a crazy new contract, and now LvG is left with having to sort out the problem of dropping the clubs captain, highest paid player, and the most commercially important player at the club, it's not an easy thing for him to do, even if he want to (which I'm sure he does.)

It's a problem, and unit its sorted we won't be winning anything just yet imo.
 
Someone made a joke a few weeks ago about his second touch being a tackle but it's actually true, and defenders just brush him off with ease in duels, this is not a slump in form he's every bit as shot as RvP and Falcao.
 
C'est Moi Cantona said:
Thing is though it's not Rooney's fault, he peaked ages ago yet the decision was taken to tie him down to a crazy new contract, and now LvG is left with having to sort out the problem of dropping the clubs captain, highest paid player, and the most commercially important player at the club, it's not an easy thing for him to do, even if he want to (which I'm sure he does.)

It's a problem, and unit its sorted we won't be winning anything just yet imo.
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Sure LVG has indulged him too much. But the majority of the blame lies squarely with the decision makers at the club. They've bloody elevated him to this seemingly untouchable position, so they really need to sort it out.
 
dwd said:
I think LVG is terrified of the disharmony that Rooney being benched would cause to the team morale. We are stuck between a rock and a hard place until the transfer window I reckon. If he's not sold in the summer then I give up.
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I wouldn't give a feck to be honest. Give the youngsters a chance and lock anyone who causes a stink out of the dressing room. It's gotten to the point where Rooney is performing so poorly that we'd be a better side without him anywhere near it, even if he takes a couple of first teamers down with him.

Van Gaal needs to whip out his balls again and show the team who the boss is. Anyone who wants to play for the team will figure out very quickly that throwing a hissy with Rooney is the wrong way to get time on the bitch, and with better performances comes better morale.

Fergie showed that rotten apples could easily be fecked off without the rot spreading to the rest of the team. He got rid of Ince, Keane, RvN, Heinze, Tevez and more without the team suffering much at all. Rooney shouldn't be any different if Van Gaal is half the manager his reputation says he is.
 
I know it's not something United fans are too interested in right now, but seeing Wayne like this really shows how incredible Alan Shearer's PL record is. For years people have been saying Rooney will break it, but I'm more likely to win a golden boot in my 30s than he is.
 
Tommy said:
I know it's not something United fans are too interested in right now, but seeing Wayne like this really shows how incredible Alan Shearer's PL record is. For years people have been saying Rooney will break it, but I'm more likely to win a golden boot in my 30s than he is.
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Can't really recall anyone saying Rooney will break it to be honest. Shearer's record will last for a long time. Not that this has anything to do with Rooney being utter shite at the moment but hey ho!
 
Red Stone said:
I wouldn't give a feck to be honest. Give the youngsters a chance and lock anyone who causes a stink out of the dressing room. It's gotten to the point where Rooney is performing so poorly that we'd be a better side without him anywhere near it, even if he takes a couple of first teamers down with him.

Van Gaal needs to whip out his balls again and show the team who the boss is. Anyone who wants to play for the team will figure out very quickly that throwing a hissy with Rooney is the wrong way to get time on the bitch, and with better performances comes better morale.

Fergie showed that rotten apples could easily be fecked off without the rot spreading to the rest of the team. He got rid of Ince, Keane, RvN, Heinze, Tevez and more without the team suffering much at all. Rooney shouldn't be any different if Van Gaal is half the manager his reputation says he is.
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I agree with all of that. I just think and fear that Rooney has far more power than we are led to believe. The best thing Van Gaal would do would be to drop him, just to see how he responds at first.
 
Tommy said:
I know it's not something United fans are too interested in right now, but seeing Wayne like this really shows how incredible Alan Shearer's PL record is. For years people have been saying Rooney will break it, but I'm more likely to win a golden boot in my 30s than he is.
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A few years back I thought he could do it but his steady decline lead me to believe otherwise. It really is amazing how Shearer kept scoring into his mid 30s, he's pretty underrated on the world stage.

If only he came to United :(
 
dwd said:
I think LVG is terrified of the disharmony that Rooney being benched would cause to the team morale. We are stuck between a rock and a hard place until the transfer window I reckon. If he's not sold in the summer then I give up.
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I'm not sure it's team morale as such. I think it's the power of Rooney's dealings with the media and the mess he can cause which would of course disrupt the team. I would like to think there's a method to his madness and that the only way to neutralise Rooney is to play him and show everyone how shite he is. If Rooney continues like this, then he will quickly run out of excuses because the evidence is right before everyone's eyes.

For eg. I remember last season with Falcao. LVG wasn't playing him for a bit, and then Falcao's 'people' and Mendes started throwing shade LVG's way - at that moment, I believe Woodward and Mendes were getting along (before DDG's contract fiasco) - plus some fans wanted Falcao to start - so LVG started playing him. When Falcao started getting his run of games, I felt at that moment that someone intervened to get that to happen. So LVG continues playing him until slowly the fans and club realised finally that Falcao was done.

I wonder (or hope) therefore that he might be employing the same action with regards to Rooney..
 
Jazz said:
Sure LVG has indulged him too much. But the majority of the blame lies squarely with the decision makers at the club. They've bloody elevated him to this seemingly untouchable position, so they really need to sort it out.
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Sure thing if Sir Alex was still here Rooney wouldn't be, he knew what was going on alright.

I don't want to bash Rooney too much because he has done some great things for us, but I do harbour the hope that LvG will faze him out soon, and he will somehow find a club willing to take him off our hands next summer, thus leaving Sir Bobbys scoring record intact, because there's not a hope he'll score enough before the end of the season on this form.
 
One thing I thought was hilarious because it summed up perfectly the shite-Rooney. There was a perfect ball was played into him from the left side (can't remember from who) and Rooney had found himself in space outside the box to take a touch and either shoot, lob a ball forward and try a through ball like your top level striker does but instead he managed to take a diabolical touch which put the ball backwards about 5-6 yards, ran to it and without even checking behind him, trying to turn to pass it to someone in an attack position he pinged it out wide :lol:


0/10 do not want.
 
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Trizy said:
One thing I thought was hilarious because it summed up perfectly the shite-Rooney. There was a perfect ball was played into him from the left side (can't remember from who) and Rooney had found himself in space outside the box to take a touch and either shoot, lob a ball forward and try a through ball like your top level striker does but instead he managed to take a diabolical tough which put the ball backwards about 5-6 yards, ran to it and without even checking behind him, trying to turn to pass it to someone in an attack position he pinged it out wide :lol:


0/10 do not want.
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The pass from Martial?
 
Tommy said:
I know it's not something United fans are too interested in right now, but seeing Wayne like this really shows how incredible Alan Shearer's PL record is. For years people have been saying Rooney will break it, but I'm more likely to win a golden boot in my 30s than he is.
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that was back when it was 442 you have a go we have a go. Shearer was class but I wonder how many he's score under this philisophy
 
Tommy said:
I know it's not something United fans are too interested in right now, but seeing Wayne like this really shows how incredible Alan Shearer's PL record is. For years people have been saying Rooney will break it, but I'm more likely to win a golden boot in my 30s than he is.
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The level he was at 5 years ago he should have gone on to break Shearer's record. He's kind of limped over the line to get the England record and we're not sure if he'll even break Charlton's record at United. He's only just turned 30 but he looks completely done.
 
Trizy said:
One thing I thought was hilarious because it summed up perfectly the shite-Rooney. There was a perfect ball was played into him from the left side (can't remember from who) and Rooney had found himself in space outside the box to take a touch and either shoot, lob a ball forward and try a through ball like your top level striker does but instead he managed to take a diabolical touch which put the ball backwards about 5-6 yards, ran to it and without even checking behind him, trying to turn to pass it to someone in an attack position he pinged it out wide :lol:


0/10 do not want.
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Was it the pass from Fellaini when they were counter-attacking?
 
I remember Frank Lampard coming on as a sub in one of Chelsea's League Cup matches, and completely changing the game through sheer intelligence and composure; he did that Zidane-like thing of being calm, making space for himself, and his experience really told against lesser opposition...and this was when Frank was getting on in years. I'm not even a fan of his but I was very impressed; why on earth can't Wayne - if his energy and touch has truly deserted him - do the same as Lampard did? We're forever being told that Rooney has a good footballing brain, so why can't he even reach the level of an aging Lampard or Sheringham? At this time, you'd even fancy long-retired Paul Scholes to show more nous and even dynamism than Rooney has. Running on fumes after a long career is one thing but at heart there's really no excuse for being unable to adjust, even if one isn't as 'clever' as Frank or Teddy or Paul.
 
dwd said:
Can't really recall anyone saying Rooney will break it to be honest. Shearer's record will last for a long time. Not that this has anything to do with Rooney being utter shite at the moment but hey ho!
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Only person capable of breaking it would have been Ronaldo.
 
Sick of it. It's the same every week, he plays, he plays shit and we all come on here and moan about it. Van Gaal and his coaching staff somehow miss it and he plays the next game like nothing happened.

Something is seriously. We need a goal and LVG brings him on. Madness.
 
AltiUn said:
Only person capable of breaking it would have been Ronaldo.
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If he scores a goal a game in La Liga this season he'll have more league goals for Real than Shearer has goals in the Premiership, in half the amount of seasons.

Mental player.
 
Red Stone said:
If he scores a goal a game in La Liga this season he'll have more league goals for Real than Shearer has goals in the Premiership, in half the amount of seasons.

Mental player.
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Frightening to think, isn't it? There'll not be another like him for decades.
 
He really looks like a punch drunk boxer sometimes and his peripheral vision is getting more and more narrow.

I hope we already have a deal in place with Everton so he can go home at the end of the season (infact I think we do have a pre-deal in place).
 
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