Rooney's contract

[alanblue]

If that would have been City giving one of our players a 300k a week contract we would have been fucked from pillar to post,
ripped a new one, ruining football, wanting us kicked out of the league, banned from europe etc, etc.

 

[Wilf Wild 1937]

what has changed from 5 years ago?

Well Rooney is older,fatter,balder,slower and scores and assists less....but,

He earns twice as much money...

The real winners here are Rooney,Cleen & the agent and old manc based grannies.

Disagree with this ... he's got more hair than he had 5 years ago.

 

[ShepherdofShark]

Make it so?

 

[bgblue]

Found this on twitter :)

 

[waspish]

Apparently Rooney is going to be our talisman for the World Cup! Fcuk me the media have short memories

 

[BlueHammer85]

As a neutral, he's a very good player but no where in the bracket of world class like Ronaldo or Messi. It's foolish to write him off though, he's goal record speaks for himself and he's work rate is phenomenal. Man U and the media have overhyped this contract extension and just papering over the cracks of a very bad season. But calling Rooney 'shit', 'average' etc are seeing that purely from a anti Man U view.

 

[supercrystal7]

As a neutral, he's a very good player but no where in the bracket of world class like Ronaldo or Messi. It's foolish to write him off though, he's goal record speaks for himself and he's work rate is phenomenal. Man U and the media have overhyped this contract extension and just papering over the cracks of a very bad season. But calling Rooney 'shit', 'average' etc are seeing that purely from a anti Man U view.

I don't think anyone truly thinks Rooney is average. He is still England's best player. He is a a fantastic striker and world class, but he is not even in the top 5 strikers in the world let alone top 5 players. With RVP likely to be off, keeping Rooney is important though for the stature of the club. Foreign players will rate him higher than he is.

 

[IH8MUFC]

As a neutral, he's a very good player but no where in the bracket of world class like Ronaldo or Messi. It's foolish to write him off though, he's goal record speaks for himself and he's work rate is phenomenal. Man U and the media have overhyped this contract extension and just papering over the cracks of a very bad season. But calling Rooney 'shit', 'average' etc are seeing that purely from a anti Man U view.

I don't think anyone truly thinks Rooney is average. He is still England's best player. He is a a fantastic striker and world class, but he is not even in the top 5 strikers in the world let alone top 5 players. With RVP likely to be off, keeping Rooney is important though for the stature of the club. Foreign players will rate him higher than he is.

On current form it can be argued that Sturridge and Cahill are better.

 

[laserblue]

I don't think anyone truly thinks Rooney is average. He is still England's best player. He is a a fantastic striker and world class, but he is not even in the top 5 strikers in the world let alone top 5 players. With RVP likely to be off, keeping Rooney is important though for the stature of the club. Foreign players will rate him higher than he is.

He's not even in the top 5 strikers in the PL. 10 goals in 22 appearances is nothing to write home about. Yaya's scored 13 in 25 and he's not even a striker. Jay Rodriguez and Wilfried Bony can match Rooney's PL goals total. He's still a good player but IMO he peaked 3 or 4 years ago. Being considered England's best player is damning him with faint praise too.

 

[jrb]

Brian Kidd in the Mirror sucking up to Rooney and Sturridge.

And he just had to mention City and their signings.

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