Who would today's Rooney join?

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

United, they give youngsters a chance, sadly we don´t...

So Nastasic isn't a youngster? Hart and Richards weren't given chances?

We WOULD give him a chance because we'd be paying £25million for him.

What United do better than us is give players from their academy more of a chance (though most of them end up sold to the Championship or lower Premier League), but not necessarily young players signed for big money. Have you seen Nick Powell lately by the way? £6million and playing for their reserve team.

hart and richards were given a chance how many years ago ????

the truth is united do give youngsters a chance more than us though, we rarely ever give academy kids a game, even a few minutes, yes rekik played once, but apart from that who has been given a fair chance.
nick powell will be in the united team in the next few seasons and tbh you can compare him to rodwell who probably wouldnt have been in the first team that much if fit anyway.

 

[nehe11]

United, they give youngsters a chance, sadly we don´t...

So Nastasic isn't a youngster? Hart and Richards weren't given chances?

We WOULD give him a chance because we'd be paying £25million for him.

What United do better than us is give players from their academy more of a chance (though most of them end up sold to the Championship or lower Premier League), but not necessarily young players signed for big money. Have you seen Nick Powell lately by the way? £6million and playing for their reserve team.

If I recall correctly Joe Hart was given a chance against Tottenham at the age 23-24 by Mancini after coming back from a loanspell, Micah well established squad member before Mancini arrived, Nasty is the exception and you can add Rodwell to the equation, started a few games at the beginning of the season before he got injured. Nick Powell has played in the CL and PL, great experience for him.

 

[Pigeonho]

Today's Rooney? If he was like the real Rooney the answer would be: whoever paid the most - Rooney always has and always will be money-driven footballer. Just look at how close he was to coming here before the rags shattered their wage structure in a panic.

Most are.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Back when the rags bought Rooney, there wasn't much in the way of competition. He was hailed as the biggest English talent in years, but the only challengers to get his signature were Newcastle (who couldn't even stump up a high enough fee).

Chelski had just been bought by Roman, so had the money, but were focused on buying more established talents for more immediate success at the time.

The gooners were better than the rags, but didn't (and still don't) have any desire to spend £25 -30 million on one player.

My question is, who would a young, extremely highly-rated, £30 -40 million youngster (much more highly rated than Will Hughes) join today?

These days United aren't the richest in the league, and we have an exciting project going on.. So realistically it's between us, Chelski and the rags.
But, in your opinion, which of the three would he choose?

He'd still choose MANUre 'cos the FatScouseGit's mentality, intellect and general boorishness fits them best!

 

[LoveCity]

hart and richards were given a chance how many years ago ????

Does it matter? We haven't had that many high quality young players TO give chances to since except Johnson who I forgot to add. And Mancini took a big gamble on Hart when he had Given. And Micah was heading into mediocrity before Mancini coached some intelligence and discipline into him.

the truth is united do give youngsters a chance more than us though, we rarely ever give academy kids a game, even a few minutes, yes rekik played once, but apart from that who has been given a fair chance.

As I said United have the edge in giving academy players a chance but for actual young players who were bought - which United have more of than young academy players (just like City) - then there is little difference between the clubs.

nick powell will be in the united team in the next few seasons and tbh you can compare him to rodwell who probably wouldnt have been in the first team that much if fit anyway.

Nick Powell has 6 appearances for United this season yet cost £6million and his last appearance was in a Champions League dead rubber game some months back. My point being that just like us United don't play ALL of their young players, Henriquez was thrown into the reserves too before being loaned out. And Pogba was never given a fair chance and look at how that turned out.

Just like us, Fergie plays most of the young players he signs but not all. But unlike us Fergie gives slightly more academy players first team chances. It's not this huge difference that some make out though. When was the last time we paid £6m/7m on young players who spent much of that season in the reserve team like Henriquez and Powell?

 

[MSP]

United probably if everything else would match... they're still club most of kids would want to play as they grew up being full or half rags.

City are still short of some 10-15 years before being able to compete with that status too.

 

[Squadmissile]

Depends if you play for Southampton or not.

 

[The Future's Blue]

Sick bastard.

 

[SuperYaya]

Depends on a case by case basis, but like you say, Chelsea, City or United.