You state that because people believe Rooney's performances were poor last year, we should suddenly regard any improvement as a 'good to decent standard'. Not sure how that makes sense, a player can be poor, slightly improve (which is debatable IMO) and still be poor or decent at best. Even if we accept he has been average/decent, that shouldn't be sufficient to keep your place when you're playing for Manchester United and there are players like Myhitaryan sitting on the bench.
His place in the team wasn't under threat at the end of last season though? His form had raised quite dramatically in a different role (one that is infinitely more synonymous with where he is playing now) and we won silverware (with a significant contribution from Rooney) and finished off a poor league campaign. Not ideal but still an upward trend for the team/squad (Rooney included). A new manager has now come in and said that Rooney is obviously one of our best and most experienced players and will play him in a role that suits his game far better than where LVG was playing him up front last season. Even at a base level, an improvement to the team has got to be seen in a positive light? No?
Mhki has barely kicked a ball in England yet and I completely understand that the fans want to bust out our new toy and play with it. The manager is doing the right thing in man-managing his player and slowly introducing him into the team. He has all the data on the situation to do that properly, trust him. Essentially, for examples sake; if Mkhi performed shite for three games and our start was poor, you would be getting a similar response to when we played Wigan and the subsequent few games "is he good enough, my knees are sore from jerking so hard I don't think he'll make it here". I much prefer imported players get introduced slowly and develop on their own into a settled environment and squad role before advancing to the first team. The fans are salivating at the prospect and really gagging for him to be unleashed and that is great, one of the best parts of football. But somehow it has manifested itself into a stick to beat Rooney with, yet another one. We saw what chopping the squad and shoving players in that are underdone did to our consistency in the last two seasons. The Gaffer is spot on with his management of Mkhi in my opinion, even Ibra is not immune from this but the Gaffer is right to trust his players and how he uses them, like we should be able to trust him to do what is right by us.
I don't think the fans can really say that he isn't doing the right thing. We're three from three so far and getting our confidence and swagger back slowly but surely. I completely understand that after having SAF so long that the last three years have smashed the fans trust in the manager as well, that is a big part of understanding why Rooney provokes this kind of reaction. I bet Jose knows this as well, some of his comments show he has a positive read on the situation.
His contributions ie. goals and assists do indeed look good on paper but watching the actual matches I believe it is clear that they do not outweigh the negatives he brings to the team's performances. The goal against Bournemouth was a relatively simple finish and I would be disappointed if any of our attacking players were to miss such an opportunity. The goal against Southampton came about mainly down to Ibrahimovic's strength in the air more than any exceptional play on Rooney's part. Obviously the goal against Hull can be attributed to Rooney's brilliant play; I can't dispute that.
The B'mouth goal was an excellent header, I do not agree at all that it was a "relatively simple finish", to play it down as such does a massive disservice to the argument. The Soton goal he just humped a ball in, agree that it was nothing more than Zlatan making something out of a speculative cross. Hull needs no explaning.
You seem unable to accept any criticism of Rooney which is rather strange in a thread created solely to discuss his performances and you yourself seem unwilling to accept any/or little criticism of him. Seems a bit one sided and perhaps you should create a thread solely for the purpose of praising him. I don't imagine it will be particularly active but might suit your needs a bit more.
Sorry but this is another load of rubbish, nothing more than political point scoring to further suit the narrative. It is the standard hyperbole go-to line when discussion arises from the sensible center. "Unable to accept
any criticism" is such a reach to far. Criticism is fine, you'll notice I've not really said much about the genuine and general criticism.
There really hasn't been that much to criticize. If on average a player has 10 poor touches out of 150 in three games it isn't going to get me upset and I've stated nothing more than that. I think it is healthy for the fans to demand a high standard, the nonsense in this thread is all I have targeted and attacked because it is well wide of the mark. It is unnecessary given the context of how Rooney and the team have been performing and it seriously hampers any people who want to have a proper discussion about it. I am happy to have a general discussion about Rooney but it instantly gets derailed with conspiracy theories, re-writing of history, personal waterboarding of users who want to give their opinion, jostling among each other to get a laugh with silly comments, smileys and name calling. Droves of users then pile in and exacerbating the problem. It is just tedious now to even try it.
I bet if you polled the board and asked if users would contribute more to this thread if there wasn't so much nonsense in here you'd probably find a solid number would be willing to, but out of general tedium they do not. I think that is definitely the most disappointing aspect.
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. Also whether he is "declined" or "finished" is highly subjective. Hes undoubtedly declined, but whether or not he is "finished" depends on how you define it. 
Embarrassing. So everyone that agrees with you is sensible and reasonable while those who hold a different opinion are 'haters' and just simply wrong. Basically people are only objective when they have the same view as you? I'll keep that in mind.
