NewbBlue said:
If we buy Rooney, can we call United our feeder club?
Nope.
If we buy Rooney, we can call ourselves United.
Like it? No, I didn't think so.
-- Thu Oct 21, 2010 8:41 am --
cfn1963 said:
Life is too short to read all 33 pages so apologies if (as I suspect) nothing new here.
Rooney has developed into a pretty loathsome character. Snarling, abusive to referees, adulterer and disrespectful to his own body as an athlete and to his employers and fans who have a right to expect for the money he gets that he will put himself in the best shape to perform at the highest level.
Rooney has become rather injury prone and has suffered an alarming drop in form. There is also a nagging feeling that he hasn't quite delivered consistently against the very best.
To get him (especially in January) if there is competition would be putting money into the United coffers. Would we really want to facilitate the transfer of Torres? There is a risk we end up with a Gascoigne and United end up with a rejuvenated superstar. Given our looming superiority and the prospect of Balotelli, why take that risk?
Spending the money might also mean we cant meet FIFA financial rules.
Finally, the point about the perception excess and greed is important. This would be seen as the ultimate demonstration that City really does not care about the immorality of the game. Flirting with Terry was bad enough. To sign the Rooney of 2010, not the brilliant working class football-mad throwback some of us rather reluctantly acknowledged (incorrectly as it turns out) would risk alienating a lot of the core support and if not turning them away from the club, at least diluting even more the joy that we shall hopefully get when success is achieved.
Let him go to Real.
In my view we can delete 44 pages, and lock the thread with just this post above remaining.
Well said that man. Summed it all up perfectly.
