China is not Siberia or the Sahara plus 100m pounds sets him up for life.
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Yeah I find it a bit odd that everyone thinks China is some shithole noone wants to go to. It's been the fastest developing country for a long time (until last year).
He's earning 100m here, why would he leave?
We can rebuild him. We have the technology.
Satire.
What? Even if he was to earn the 300k, which is not guaranteed iirc, he would be getting 78m before tax and given the last three seasons the club and he have had I doubt if he's earned the full amount.
@itso 7 is so shocked that he said it twice.
"(Without giving too much away, let's just say it included eight noughts) I literally gasped in horror, prompting him to add a final killer blow: 'After tax!'
"'There's another advantage I can see,' I said. 'What's that?' 'The Chinese fans won't realise how slow you've got.' '**** off!'
"My guess is Rooney won't leave United for another year or two.
"But one thing's for sure, the Chinese are coming for world football and as with everything they do in business, they seem to have almost limitless sums of cash with which to dominate it."
"'There's another advantage I can see,' I said. 'What's that?' 'The Chinese fans won't realise how slow you've got.' '**** off!'
"My guess is Rooney won't leave United for another year or two.
"But one thing's for sure, the Chinese are coming for world football and as with everything they do in business, they seem to have almost limitless sums of cash with which to dominate it."
My dad used to do a lot of business out there, he lived out there for a bit and travelled right around the country before the credit crunch hit. He still thinks it's a shithole outside of the obvious modernity of certain parts of Beijing and Shanghai. Anywhere with pollution like they do is a shithole, and much of the (admittedly massive) country is still undeveloped and very, very poor.
Unless you've been and gone around the country then you can only go off the media which is understandable. Obviously that's just one mans opinion (He didn't think much of India either, sorry) but at least he had experience of it so he can form an opinion. For right or for wrong.
I can't imagine a dyed in the wool scouser with a certain reputation for being thick as feck appreciating China for all it's wonderful culture and the progress they've made when the economy was absolutely booming.
(And yes, this is all sweeping speculation and stereotyping, but that's what we do. China, despite all the money still won't be an attractive proposition for dear Wayne. Though I can still imagine him taking the payday for a bit and then coming back a bit like Drogba/Anelka, albeit their situation was a little bit different with not actually getting paid).
Cute.
Rooney 'suffers injury Setback':
http://www.football365.com/news/good-news-man-united-rooney-suffers-setback
http://www.football365.com/news/good-news-man-united-rooney-suffers-setback
Good news! Harsh. We have hardly been better without him. Martial and Rooney is the best attacking partnership we have IMO.
Football365 finally in the Sun tier.
Such cnuts.
Such cnuts.
I imagine he'll just be focused on getting back for the Euros to steal a starting spot from Kane or Vardy.
People still think he's at fault for everything?
No, he's just one of several big problems we have.
Think the biggest one is LVG, too many players don't play nowhere neat their ability.
Rooney is past it but our attack is non-existent with or without him up-front.
I am not sure many said that tbf(some have though), but I think it's quite obvious for long now that no matter which players we are playing there won't be much difference in our play. I mean, we played some youth players who are nowhere near ready and they played better than senior players who cost around 30-40m on average. There are also different stats that show we have better record when we don't play Martial, despite him being pretty much our best player. I am not sure you can use anything for granted during van Gaal's time here, even if Rooney was one of our worst player in first half of the season we were still hardly any better when he didn't play. Even during his best form when he was scoring a lot we were still shit, there just isn't any consistency in the team, no matter who plays.
Heart skipped a beat here. Each time I see the Rooney thread bumped I fear he is back!
Actually our record is significantly better with Schweinsteiger in the team than without. Yet he is still pretty much disliked.
We average 1.9 pts in the league with him in the team and 1.2 without him. 1.9 pts a game would give us 55pts, joint second with Spuds. Obviously not a sure and fast way to measure things but it suggests he makes a difference.
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I hope he's not too injured....
....don't want him failing his medical in China.
....don't want him failing his medical in China.
What? Who dislikes BFS? I want names.
Anyone who doesn't like Basti is cordially invited to come and headbutt my fist.
Venture into the BFS performance thread!
Scumbag headline. I would imagine he'll be taking it easy with the rehab to get back to the Euros, don't want him to really rush it and go in underdone but he'll probably be gash after this injury layoff. Feel sorry for him to be honest, he always gets these injuries right before major tournaments.
This one actually could be very helpful to him regarding the tournament if he returns on time. If he was fit all the time van Gaal would play him in every game without any rest and he would be exhausted when the summer comes.
Yeah true, he needs a run of about 5 or 6 games before he's on. Still have a theory that he's been taking it easy this season to avoid any serious injuries. With his track record of being knifed before major tournaments I don't really blame him if that is true.
I do. We pay his wages not England and as such should be his number one priority
You pay his wages?
I can see it now, a Man United star being rushed back quickly for England duty. Sounds pretty familiar
Where do you live? I dont like Schweinsteiger but I dont dislike him as well. I find the Bastian Fecking Schweinsteiger thing and all quite cringey as he has done feck all for our club so far, but there's no reason to dislike him either. He's just meh as United player.
Don't be pedantic. Utd, the club I love and support pay his wages and if he is holding anything back because he is saving it for England he fecking well shouldn't be
Well you said "we" as if it effected you? The guy has given 10+ years of service to the club, I'd be fine with the gaff and even anyone in the background saying not to do anything stupid like get drawn into bone crushing tackles or go in hard on other players, chase down and fight for lost causes.
I mean, it is probably that nobody knows how to play as a #9 for Van Gaal, but it might be that he wasn't doing anything stupid to jeopardize his Euro place.
I really doubt that he's holding anything back for the Euros. He worked harder than most under Moyes in the 13/14 season before the World Cup which was a more important tournament for him.
you might be fine with him half arsing it for the sake of England but I suspect you are in a very VERY small minority.
You could well be right and it is the system making him struggle, (personally I think he is finished) but I would expect the same from any player that I would from my colleagues, to do their job to the absolute best of their ability, not to hold something back. How would you feel if you were carrying people who were coasting your job?
And look how that turned out
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