Is anyone still going to claim the fact that his hattrick came against piss poor opposition doesn't make any difference and he's still got it?
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I'm sorry but he looks just as finished as RvP and Falcao did last season. Too slow physically and mentally.
Shooooot!
Needs to be shipped out to China/America. Having him as the focal point of our attack just stifles everything. He's slow, weak, has no engine anymore and has a horrendous first touch, as well as being unable to play simple passes 50% of the time
Dire. Inept. Abysmal.
Displayed the penalty box wisdom and finishing you'd expect of Chris Smalling or Phil Jones. How much time does he want in the box ? You'd have thought he might have learned from Walker's own goal but apparently not.
Displayed the penalty box wisdom and finishing you'd expect of Chris Smalling or Phil Jones. How much time does he want in the box ? You'd have thought he might have learned from Walker's own goal but apparently not.
Contrast between his last two performances 
Rooney is one of the best paid players in the world. Let that sink in.
fecking horrible performance. 0 confidence.
fecking horrible performance. 0 confidence.
The reason we lost today simple as. His uselessness in front of goal and as a number 9 is nothing new. That pass that led to the equalizer in unforgivable though
Not good enough anymore for our ambitions, and I'm not (only) taking about the chance at the end. He just offered absolutely nothing throughout and set up Swansea for their equalizer. Oh well.
Piss poor again today. Looks past it and Van Gaal's reluctance to sub him is getting old. Inept performance, not only by him but quite a few of his teammates.
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No club would want to pay him even half of what he is currently earning.
We would probably have to subsidies his wages at another club. Or let him go for a very low transfer fee so that his new club could use some of the savings on his wages.
Lol at those saying 'he's back' etc. Brugge were pathetic. They could of made Heskey look good.
They will come out in force when Rooney scores his first away goal in the league....maybe sometime in 2016.
Falcao 1. Van Persie 1. Rooney 0.
Flat track bully, exposed again
We lost because we have a third rate goalkeeper. I don't see how that is even debatable?
Considering his wages, No.
why the bloody hell he didn't take the last chance on his left foot i'll never know.
he's not that far out.
why give that average gimp defender time to get back in.
I'd love to know from a premier league defender's perspective how hard he is to play against compared to others, and how it compared to a few years ago, as to me it looks pretty comfy
I have been defending throughout his bad spell but after that performance there really is no way anyone can defend him anymore. Both Gomis and Eder looked twice the player Rooney did today.
Compare the last two opponents and you have the answer.This guy. Compare his last two performances for us.
That's harsh - Williams is a fine defender, and has been an absolute colossus in pretty much every game he's played against us.
That's it really. If we'd had Gomis up front we'd have won.
Quite sad when you think about it.
I don't think his touch and general play was bad today. Its his decision making that let him down. He did a nice skill but completely fluffed it later on(similar to his run at Etihad last season). He should just shoot immediately after he makes space for himself. For too many times he wastes chances like that.
average by premier league standards. keeping us out isn't any sign of greatness these days!
Absolute horseshit. Romero was cack but Rooney this fat bald headed overpaid cnut was so shite it was not even funny
It'd be a club from China/Qatar/America that would take him on a free and match his salary, just because of his name and the statement it would make.
He scored a hatrick and they came out the woodworks to proclaim the great Rooney's return...But Danny welbeck also scored a hatrick against a poor European side last season..
Since the wondergoal against West Ham in 2014 when David Moyes was still manager, Wayne Rooney has scored 1 away goal..a good one admittedly..against Arsenal...But some of the fanboys will come here and tell us about his greatness two/three or days from now(They wont show up now, they never do)
My heart will break on the day that Sir Bobby's record eventually does fall..he gave his life to this football club..To see it go in this way with an undroppable player that past his peak years ago while that player slowly leads us to mediocrity will be a hard pill to take ..But such is life, sigh
Since the wondergoal against West Ham in 2014 when David Moyes was still manager, Wayne Rooney has scored 1 away goal..a good one admittedly..against Arsenal...But some of the fanboys will come here and tell us about his greatness two/three or days from now(They wont show up now, they never do)
My heart will break on the day that Sir Bobby's record eventually does fall..he gave his life to this football club..To see it go in this way with an undroppable player that past his peak years ago while that player slowly leads us to mediocrity will be a hard pill to take ..But such is life, sigh
He must have bet his house on Swansea or something, how did he not even get a shot on target with his left foot?
He's also lazy.
When Pep went to Barca he used Rooney as a benchmark for his pressing. Nowadays he's just walking around and rarely pressing.
Not good enough. We're wasting our time playing him and for some reason he never gets subbed either.
There are plenty of other problems with the team and he isn't the reason we lost today but we definitely need someone better than him.
There are plenty of other problems with the team and he isn't the reason we lost today but we definitely need someone better than him.
Indeed. Having said that, the same is true for our whole attack. Ayou or whatever is his name is was miles better than depay and Mata. Rooney is a huge problem because he's our striker and star man and captain but I think our widemen are underwhelming too.
Back to shit against somewhat decen opponents.
Nope. Like you said, i think every other club at our level or slightly below it has a better striker. (Swansea striker Gomis was so much better than Rooney today) Also no other club in the world will pay him the same amount of money. I think he will stay at United untill the end of his contract.
you have to wonder whether it's instructions to not spend to much time pressing hard, or whether it's simply limitations physically.
Van Gaal has been very vocal that he's been doing a great job, which seems completely the opposite to what everyone watching can see.
We've fixed some deficiencies but allowed others to fester. Hard to imagine anyone supporting Rooney and his current form in the BPL. He has become an albatross for our side. Everyone keeps hoping he improves and shows his real quality, but sadly I truly believe this is his standard now. SAF knew and predicted this decline many years ago, but the free fall under Moyes forced some bad decision making and Rooney is now safe and secure on $300k/week. To exacerbate the scenario he has been made captain by LVG, thus making him undrop-able. The sooner we rid ourselves of him and his reputation the better off we will be as a club.
Didn't expect that at all
Why? I've always maintained that while I am a Rooney fanboy, i'll try and be objective about his performances.
This season is the first in a while where he's had a run of games up front, in a relatively settled side. And in the league, he's barely threatened. Just never looks like getting on the end of anything. Whether that's him, or the system, or both . . .
Like happened to Torres, perhaps he has lost that half yard that once allowed him to get away from defenders. So that chance today, where he turned Ashley Williams but then Williams got back at him just before he was going to shoot, might've ended up in the back of the net 3-5 years ago.
Not writing him off completely, and I still think there *are* plenty of haters about who are looking for any excuse to slate him, and have been since the first transfer request in 2010, even when he was playing well.
But age and 600+ games simply might be catching up with him. We'll see.
Yes, Depay downed tools in the second half. Seemed annoyed that he wasn't getting decisions and seemed more focused on the ref than the game.
100% this.
Right now I'm that angry I'd be happy for everyone at the club who thinks Wayne is the way forward to be sacked. Absolute joke, it's like he has something over the management, the situation with him not being droppable or subbed is making me actually hate him.
I hoped the Brugge hat-trick would give his finishing confidence but he hesitated when he got into good positions again today up against proper defenders after playing against 4th tier CB's on Wednesday.
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