The official "We don't want Wayne Rooney" thread.

[Skashion]

they'll walk away from the club if we do!!!!!!

I'm certainly not one of those. I genuinely think this is not the right move football-wise. Some people don't accept that and think that I'm less of a blue or less enthused about 'the project' because of it. That's what's bollocks. I'm perfectly prepared to agree to disagree about the merits of signing Rooney on football alone.

 

[flb]

I definately dont want him at city. For me I honestly believe Tevez is a better player for us what has he got 27 goals in 28 games or something ?

TEvez left the rags as they played Rooney every week instead of him. Same sort of player I am happy with Tevez. PIg boy can fuck off to spain or whatever I dont want hima t city.

Its a valid point about Tevez-but what happens if he gets injured,the goals dry up,or simply moves away from City to go back home as hes said he will do?
Who will bang the goals in then like he has done?

At the moment Adebayor aint doing it,RSC & Jo never will and Balotelli is unproven and a tad injury prone.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I definately dont want him at city. For me I honestly believe Tevez is a better player for us what has he got 27 goals in 28 games or something ?

TEvez left the rags as they played Rooney every week instead of him. Same sort of player I am happy with Tevez. PIg boy can fuck off to spain or whatever I dont want hima t city.

Its a valid point about Tevez-but what happens if he gets injured,the goals dry up,or simply moves away from City to go back home as hes said he will do?
Who will bang the goals in then like he has done?

At the moment Adebayor aint doing it,RSC & Jo never will and Balotelli is unproven and a tad injury prone.

The fear is unfounded.

Tevez's omission was also at the expense of Ronaldo and a new £30m signing in Berbatov.

Tevez also ended up with a Champions League and Premier League title.

Difference is, Rooney, Balotelli and Tevez can all play wide/come deep in Mancini's desired three.

Tevez hasn't been playing centre forward all season. He drops 30 yards for the ball.

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

I definately dont want him at city. For me I honestly believe Tevez is a better player for us what has he got 27 goals in 28 games or something ?

TEvez left the rags as they played Rooney every week instead of him. Same sort of player I am happy with Tevez. PIg boy can fuck off to spain or whatever I dont want hima t city.

Thinking Tevez is better for us is a fair argument IMO, but he won't be able to play every game this season. If he was out or suspended at the start of this season we wouldn't be doing anywhere near as well, we're too reliant on tevez at the moment. At the end of the dayw e played 2 strikers on sunday and no one can tell me they wouldn't have rooney in there over Adebayor. Blackpool had a good go at us on sunday but if we'd have started with Tevez and the prozzy shagger up front we would have beaten them in the tunnel

That said, I still think Torres would be a shrewder siging, for multiple reasons

 

[Bellamy's Caddy]

One concern that I have is whether he is going to be injury prone from now on, his ankles do seem to be a concern (before Scholes' tackle!) he's really out of form at the moment (possibly due to his injuries) and his personal life is a mess, and he's now a hate figure for united fans (that bits funny though!)

I'm not saying I don't want him, (the question is would he improve our squad - the answer is yes, which says it all) I'm just voicing some concerns I have about his fitness/state of mind.

What is also a slight concern is that should he come here, what happens if its a disaster, he leaves after one season and tells anyone who'll listen what a mistake it was, how he regrets leaving united and does nothing but criticise us... I know there is risk in any transfer, but if this were to happen, would it not set us back several years in what we're trying to do... (note - we shouldn't let that stop us making a signing, but surely its worth considering)

Whether he comes or not I have no doubt we're interested, we got Robinho, we we got Tevez, we went for Kaka, we went for Eto'o we went for Terry.... when top players become available, we're in the market for them. As other posters have said, signing Rooney would really make everyone sit up and take notice, if they were in any doubt about our aims before, they wouldn't be then.

 

[leewill31]

Its a valid point about Tevez-but what happens if he gets injured,the goals dry up,or simply moves away from City to go back home as hes said he will do?
Who will bang the goals in then like he has done?

At the moment Adebayor aint doing it,RSC & Jo never will and Balotelli is unproven and a tad injury prone.

The fear is unfounded.

Tevez's omission was also at the expense of Ronaldo and a new £30m signing in Berbatov.

Tevez also ended up with a Champions League and Premier League title.

Difference is, Rooney, Balotelli and Tevez can all play wide/come deep in Mancini's desired three.

Tevez hasn't been playing centre forward all season. He drops 30 yards for the ball.

another big factor for me imho is that tevez may want rooney at manchester city who's to say he has not been asked about this and said please get him in?

 

[flb]

The fear is unfounded.

Tevez's omission was also at the expense of Ronaldo and a new £30m signing in Berbatov.

Tevez also ended up with a Champions League and Premier League title.

Difference is, Rooney, Balotelli and Tevez can all play wide/come deep in Mancini's desired three.

Tevez hasn't been playing centre forward all season. He drops 30 yards for the ball.

another big factor for me imho is that tevez may want rooney at manchester city who's to say he has not been asked about this and said please get him in?

He was certainly smiling like a Cheshire cat against Blackpool!

 

[Chippy_boy]

It was aimed at superblue91 and Pigeonho who think it's been ungrateful to our owners to question a signing because quite clearly I don't know I'm born. I've been hugely positive about our owners, but it shouldn't translate to not questioning anything the club now does, including signings. I am pretty sick of people who want Rooney signed trying to act like truer fans simply because you want Rooney signed. I do not hold the opposite opinion - that those who want him signed are lesser fans. With me, it's about the football. I'm not convinced Tevez and Rooney are a good partnership, having played together at the rags for two seasons, scoring an average of 21.5 league goals combined a season - less than either of them individually last season. Bearing that in mind, I'd expect another signing like Dzeko, a player a bit more removed from the Tevez mould, to be more effective. I'll set out my criteria by which I will judge this signing to be a success. Less than 37 goals; failure. More than 45; success. 37-45; no-man's land and could have been easily achieved by other means. So, come and judge me about it in May 2012. As for the marketing and profile reasons for signing him, I'll trust our club to do their sums on that. Does Rooney bring more money in that he costs in wages, signing on bonus and/or transfer fees? If he does, fair enough, the club should do what's in its financial best interests and stick their fingers up at the football argument.

No, I don't think its being ungrateful, I just think its not wanting whats best for the team/club/the rest of the fans when there are people questioning about us signing one of the best players in the world which, whether people like it or not, he is.

I'm sorry but you can't base your argument on statements like that as if it's an indisputable fact.

Rooney has at times shown world class ability. But not consistently in the same way as Messi, Ronaldo, Iniesta, Torres have.

Further, his form over the nearly the last year has been shocking. Will he ever regain the form he showed early on last season? Who knows. Or will he be "Steven Ireland" - one sublime season never to be repeated.

Paying top money for Rooney would be a huge risk. And considering the rest of the baggage he carries with him, it would be a really daft, crass signing in my view.

 

[alera]

Looking for that image of the banners they had up at the stretford end for the game last night has someone got them on here ? The ones that say whos the whore now Wayne and Colleen forgave you but we wont.

PMSL when I saw those...

One thing that is not up for debate is how much this is destroying the rags fans....

 

[lee-mcfc]

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go aboard fella.

That's right, aboard the City trophy train. Well done Lee, you're converted!

LOL i cant spell for shit!

abroad* i think

but anyways .fuck off rooney