Rooney (MERGED)

[lee-mcfc]

most city fans i'v talked to yday & today want him just to rub the rags face in it.

pathetic tbh

Maybe you have pathetic friends?

They always say that who you socialise with says a lot about the person you are....

city fans in general not my friends...

Lee, give me some reasons why Rooney won't come

Reasons why he would come:

An increase in wage.
We have a top quality squad.
Will be challenging for top honours in many years to come.
Staying in the North West (apparently Coleen wants to stay in the area)

.

Why don't you two think he'll come here (not having a go, genuine question)? Do you think he has any respect for the rag fans or club? Do you think we're not big enough for him? Do you think Glazer wouldn't sell to us?

i'v already said about ten times why

 

[sweep]

When Mancini was reported as saying

it is better to sleep with the women than drink with the beer do you think he was inviting

Wayne over to City
?
I think he's shit btw

Seems unlikely ;)

 

[Matt1089]

To be fair, you're talking shit matt. You think buying one of the best players in the world would be selling our soul?

I presume you're aware that United have statues of two ex-City players outside their ground?

You aren't living in the real world. You are living in some strange fantasy land where clubs have 'souls' and 'philosophies' and all of that. Football clubs exist to win, and have done since the 19th century.

How exactly (and I mean be specific here) is buying Rooney selling our soul?
In this answer, I expect you to outline exactly what our soul is, where we got this from, and how we would be losing it by purchasing Rooney, yet kept it whilst employing Joey Barton and Craig Bellamy.

Damocles, you may be right. Football clubs do exist to win and I know that any football club in England, and indeed the world, would want to sign Rooney if they found themselves in the privileged position that we currently occupy.

It may be that my real problem is not with City, and what I fear we will become, but with football itself. The sport has become so dominated by money that clubs are now prepared to do absolutely anything to get ahead.

Perhaps I'm looking at things too deeply now, but you could argue that football is now less about sport and more about business. And, as Margaret Thatcher would've had it, there is little room for morals, values and compassion in the truly capitalist, business-like world that football has undoubtedly become.

I can't provide you with an exact definition of what I believe the soul of Manchester City is, and I admit that words like "soul" and "philosophy" are used too often by fans like myself who don't really know precisely what they mean by them.

But I can only tell you how I feel about my club and what the last 15 years supporting them (and hating United) has meant to me. And I know that the signing Wayne Rooney would make me feel very uncomfortable.

 

[Blue Haze]

Talksport quote

"Maybe Rooney realises he has more chance of winning something with City this season"

Goodnite

Ahahahahahahaahhahahahahaha

Oh man, this day couldn't get better.

 

[Anonymous]

To be fair, you're talking shit matt. You think buying one of the best players in the world would be selling our soul?

I presume you're aware that United have statues of two ex-City players outside their ground?

You aren't living in the real world. You are living in some strange fantasy land where clubs have 'souls' and 'philosophies' and all of that. Football clubs exist to win, and have done since the 19th century.

How exactly (and I mean be specific here) is buying Rooney selling our soul?
In this answer, I expect you to outline exactly what our soul is, where we got this from, and how we would be losing it by purchasing Rooney, yet kept it whilst employing Joey Barton and Craig Bellamy.

Damocles, you may be right. Football clubs do exist to win and I know that any football club in England, and indeed the world, would want to sign Rooney if they found themselves in the privileged position that we currently occupy.

It may be that my real problem is not with City, and what I fear we will become, but with football itself. The sport has become so dominated by money that clubs are now prepared to do absolutely anything to get ahead.

Perhaps I'm looking at things too deeply now, but you could argue that football is now less about sport and more about business. And, as Margaret Thatcher would've had it, there is little room for morals, values and compassion in the truly capitalist, business-like world that football has undoubtedly become.

I can't provide you with an exact definition of what I believe the soul of Manchester City is, and I admit that words like "soul" and "philosophy" are used too often by fans like myself who don't really know precisely what they mean by them.

But I can only tell you how I feel about my club and what the last 15 years supporting them (and hating United) has meant to me. And I know that the signing Wayne Rooney would make me feel very uncomfortable.

We are one of the big bad boys who will do anything to get ahead now. That's what any top end European club needs to be.

I understand that Rooney is a bit of a special case - but he shouldn't be. We should look at every potential signing in the same manner - will he improve our team? If the answer's yes - who cares where we sign him from or what he costs...

 

[wilmslowblue]

To be fair, you're talking shit matt. You think buying one of the best players in the world would be selling our soul?

I presume you're aware that United have statues of two ex-City players outside their ground?

You aren't living in the real world. You are living in some strange fantasy land where clubs have 'souls' and 'philosophies' and all of that. Football clubs exist to win, and have done since the 19th century.

How exactly (and I mean be specific here) is buying Rooney selling our soul?
In this answer, I expect you to outline exactly what our soul is, where we got this from, and how we would be losing it by purchasing Rooney, yet kept it whilst employing Joey Barton and Craig Bellamy.

Damocles, you may be right. Football clubs do exist to win and I know that any football club in England, and indeed the world, would want to sign Rooney if they found themselves in the privileged position that we currently occupy.

It may be that my real problem is not with City, and what I fear we will become, but with football itself. The sport has become so dominated by money that clubs are now prepared to do absolutely anything to get ahead.

Perhaps I'm looking at things too deeply now, but you could argue that football is now less about sport and more about business. And, as Margaret Thatcher would've had it, there is little room for morals, values and compassion in the truly capitalist, business-like world that football has undoubtedly become.

I can't provide you with an exact definition of what I believe the soul of Manchester City is, and I admit that words like "soul" and "philosophy" are used too often by fans like myself who don't really know precisely what they mean by them.

But I can only tell you how I feel about my club and what the last 15 years supporting them (and hating United) has meant to me. And I know that the signing Wayne Rooney would make me feel very uncomfortable.

WHY just tell me WHY? Shame you cant see the funny side of this!

 

[JO 14]

Why any city fan wants us to sign rooney is beyond me. Why exactly do people want him? Hes massively overrated and hes a rag. He joins it will force tevez out of the team whos miles better than him and is by far our best player. He joins he'll be getting abuse all game every game of me until he leaves. Some people on here are deluded, 'lets get him to piss off united', how exactly will paying a ridiculous amount of money for a player they no longer want piss them off? They'll go and use the money to buy a top quality 'world class' player like sneijder and we'll be stuck with a fat scouse average player who'll be taking a ridiculous amount of money off us every week. All some people on here seem to be bothered about is pissing united off, probably care more about how bad united are doing than how well city are doing.

 

[imrebanana]

I,ve always said he is an England player who trains at the swamp. So I,m beginning to think its a yes from me.

 

[GoForGlory]

Re: RAG FANS CHANGING THEIR TUNE TODAY

Hahaha, so NOW Rooney is a mercenary? Would be fun to see the reactions of the Everton fans. :)

 

[MCFCinUSA]

I'm convinced it's us.



Why i don't think it's Chelsea

They'll probably show a lot of interest to be honest. The problem is the same as the problem they faced when showing an interest in Yaya Toure and David Silva. They're filthy rich, but they can't compete financially with us. On a sporting level they don't hold the Champions League card considering he'd be cup tied anyway. In terms of future prospects they don't really hold an advantage, or if they do, it vanishes as soon as we reach the Champions League. I don't think Coleen would be too happy with him joining Terry and Cole at Chelsea either. Haha. Can you imagine...

Rooney: "I'm just nipping round to JT's for a game of Fifa."

Coleen: "Like fuck you are"

See, that wouldn't work.

PSML