Depay is playing his first ever league game away from home at a tough stadium. Rooney has no such excuse.
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Depay is playing his first ever league game away from home at a tough stadium. Rooney has no such excuse.
20 goals 
what an absolute dire performance. Van Gaal should have the balls to drop him and send him to the reserves.
He is deteriorating very very fast. Has no first touch, no awareness of what Memphis is doing, just chugging along. Do not want him at United anymore.
He is really that bad. So who gives a damn if he is going to be an all time leading scorer. He is the main striker for United and currently he is pathetic. He deserves no respect. Earning almost 300K per week and having a first touch worst that the players from sunday league.
what an absolute dire performance. Van Gaal should have the balls to drop him and send him to the reserves.He is deteriorating very very fast. Has no first touch, no awareness of what Memphis is doing, just chugging along. Do not want him at United anymore.
He is really that bad. So who gives a damn if he is going to be an all time leading scorer. He is the main striker for United and currently he is pathetic. He deserves no respect. Earning almost 300K per week and having a first touch worst that the players from sunday league.
He looks so inept. It's alarming really.
We're relying heavily on the likes of Mata, Depay and I suppose Januzaj to an extent to provide everything he doesn't at the moment until he decides to show up.
Very disappointing from him. And this isn't an opportunity to dig the knife, I just expect our main striker and captain to be better than this.
We're relying heavily on the likes of Mata, Depay and I suppose Januzaj to an extent to provide everything he doesn't at the moment until he decides to show up.
Very disappointing from him. And this isn't an opportunity to dig the knife, I just expect our main striker and captain to be better than this.
Pre-season, everyone was telling me we just need a back up for Rooney. I still stand by my opinion that he is finished at the very top level and not as good as what our top European rivals have
Let's say he never scores a goal for us again (which isn't going to happen) the amount of abuse he gets is absolutely absurd. Even Diego Forlan gets more praise than him.
20 goals
He is deteriorating very very fast. Has no first touch, no awareness of what Memphis is doing, just chugging along. Do not want him at United anymore.
He is really that bad. So who gives a damn if he is going to be an all time leading scorer. He is the main striker for United and currently he is pathetic. He deserves no respect. Earning almost 300K per week and having a first touch worst that the players from sunday league.
It hurts to see Wayne playing like this.
He's a legend. One of my favourite players and probably going to be our record scorer of all time.
But LVG has no time for sentiment and if he plays like this for much longer he will be going the same way as Falcao, RVP et al.
LVG has zero real loyalty to him. If he can bin RVP he can bin anyone.
Needs to up his game sharpish.
Also, when I see people saying Benteke or Lukaku wouldn't be good enough to play upfront for us and then I see the man who is...
He's a legend. One of my favourite players and probably going to be our record scorer of all time.
But LVG has no time for sentiment and if he plays like this for much longer he will be going the same way as Falcao, RVP et al.
LVG has zero real loyalty to him. If he can bin RVP he can bin anyone.
Needs to up his game sharpish.
Also, when I see people saying Benteke or Lukaku wouldn't be good enough to play upfront for us and then I see the man who is...
20 goals?You must be kidding me.Adnan and Memphis looked far more likely to be our leading goalscorers if we keep playing this way.
He looks totally lost out there. I don't know what van Gaal wants from him but does he?
And they won't score enough for us to challenge for the title / UCL
Brightside is that he's been so shite we might decide to try and buy a replacement at some point in the next year
Worst decision Moyes made was to keep him at United... Ok maybe not but when hes bad hes terrible
what makes it a tough stadium out of interest?
We've a terrific record there, their fans aren't as vociferous as many, many away teams, and the pitch is lovely this time of year
Rooney's game reminds me of many games when I played up front, not getting enough of the ball, playing up front on your own, and you end up wasting most of your efforts chasing the ball, from defenders with acres of space to play with.
That is really poor
In all honesty I used to defend Rooney when he played shit in the past because when he was crap he still used to contribute and look dangerous -- he was a threat, even if he didn't score he could assist, make things happen, etc. Lately he's just anonymous.
Rooney in TGIF mode.
Under a minute into the second half, misses the ball from a Romero kick and goes offside.
That is the modern day striker though. Rvp was the same and wanted to be more involved in the build up. Even with his desire to be involved in creating chances and dropping back, he has kinda managed to keep scoring goals at a decent rate.
I wouldn't be surprised if he got around 20 goals and put in a fair few good performances, he's still a good player, but the status he has as the only senior striker and as being basically untouchable is completely wrong. Given the money we've spent and our supposed expectations, you would think he would be under pressure for his place but he seems to have a standing at the club that is disproportionate to his ability. It's not a new thing, he's never been quite the same since about 2012.
I wonder if he has some sort of accelerated aging disease?
He genuinely looks like that 45 year old geezer who's always smoking a fag outside the door of every Weatherspoons in the country.
He genuinely looks like that 45 year old geezer who's always smoking a fag outside the door of every Weatherspoons in the country.
Is there a 'top' footballer out there that's this bad when he's bad? And as often too.
I think he can still play into form, but even his good form isn't that special these days. I don't necessarily want him gone, but just from watching Memphis and Januzaj run around you can see how different we could look with a pacey young striker instead of him
When is Fellaini coming back? I hope Van Gaal will consider swapping Rooney for Fellaini. Afro #9 as our primary striker would not be much worse than having this Rooney upfront.
A modern day striker still needs to have a decent touch in order to link up and hold the ball, Rooney is just shit at it.
He's in a role that he sees himself as, a striker. He is always dropping deep looking for the ball and I know its early in the season but he does look rather poor.
He's always been a player with a huge difference between his best form and his worst. Bizarrely so. Koscielny is, or perhaps was, kind of the CB equivalent. Massive difference between their best and worst.
What does he bring to the team at the moment? I'd prefer to see hernandez up there right now.
My grandad has a better first touch.
Probably better hair as well.
100%. He does.
Get him off! He isn't fit AT ALL.
Such an awful slow display from him the past 2 games. Shocking performances.
Such an awful slow display from him the past 2 games. Shocking performances.
I thought your post was about Rooney just staying up front and not dropping back too often. Enough has been said about his first poor touch, not sure if I can add anything else.
We are playing 10 vs 11 for the whole game. Just sub him off, it's getting embarrassing.
And he gets 90 minutes
Nothing game from him. Even when you notice him he doesn't offer anything to our play. I can't believe we're going into a season with him as our main man, captain and primary goal scorer. Mind-boggling.
20 goals a season ? Im really concerned that Van Gaal has brought off Memphis and Janzuaj before Rooney, done absolutely nothing, its been 10 vs 11 all game, we desperately need to sign a striker before the window closes.
Who was it that was telling me the other day that Wayne is a world class footballer?
SAF was right all along, we should of fazed Rooney out ages ago and not offered him this massive ludicrous contract
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