Should have kept Rooney

[COYBL25]

..not the worst shout but the reality is we’d have had 4 strikers (Rooney, DCL, Tosun and Niasse) none of whom totally fill the void. Saying that, Rooney might well be head of that queue.

That`s a forward line that any Championship club would love to have :

An ex world class striker, with lungs like the inside of a cooling tower chimney.

An athlete, who can`t score due to his pet caterpillar eye brows nesting on his face

A player who is decent, but lacks pace and needs constant service to score.

A player who doesn`t know what his own legs are doing most of the time.

lol

 

[Frang]

A completely confused Everton full of over paid over hyped tossers....?

 

[Frang]

That`s a forward line that any Championship club would love to have lol

I seriously think Portsmouth fans would baulk at that front line

 

[Eggs]

That`s a forward line that any Championship club would love to have :

An ex world class striker, with lungs like the inside of a cooling tower chimney.

An athlete, who can`t score due to his pet caterpillar eye brows nesting on his face

A player who is decent, but lacks pace and needs constant service to score.

A player who doesn`t know what his own legs are doing most of the time.

lol

..I imagine Rooney is very fit. It’s easy to roll-out comments such as ‘lungs like a cooling tower chimney’ but I watched a game in the US when in injury time he sprinted back, slide tackled an opponent on the half-way line, ran towards the opposition goal and delivered a pin point cross from which his team scored. He won’t have the acceleration of old but he’ll be fit, I have no doubt about that.

 

[COYBL25]

..I imagine Rooney is very fit. It’s easy to roll-out comments such as ‘lungs like a cooling tower chimney’ but I watched a game in the US when in injury time he sprinted back, slide tackled an opponent on the half-way line, ran towards the opposition goal and delivered a pin point cross from which his team scored. He won’t have the acceleration of old but he’ll be fit, I have no doubt about that.

Give or take, he`s playing against the equivalent of league 2 players, so you`d expect him to be " mobile " in comparison to those around him.

 

[flibbyflob]

No. MLS is a pub league.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Nope. He didn't score in almost 20 games. Last goal a week before Christmas. Completely ran out of steam both physically and form.

 

[Frang]

..I imagine Rooney is very fit. It’s easy to roll-out comments such as ‘lungs like a cooling tower chimney’ but I watched a game in the US when in injury time he sprinted back, slide tackled an opponent on the half-way line, ran towards the opposition goal and delivered a pin point cross from which his team scored. He won’t have the acceleration of old but he’ll be fit, I have no doubt about that.

That just proves he's fit enough for that league.

He's not fit enough for our league tho.

United wouldn't have sold him on if he was still capable of his 2007 form

 

[Eggs]

Give or take, he`s playing against the equivalent of league 2 players, so you`d expect him to be " mobile " in comparison to those around him.

..I thought that might be the response. The original point was ‘lungs like a cooling tower chimney’, suggesting he’s not fit. Regardless of the level, to play professionally and be able to finish that game like he did suggests he’s a very fit lad with the desire to still play football.

I’m not saying he should be still at Everton, i’m saying people do him a disservice. He’s been a truly top footballer and is still able to play a bit. The thread is whether he’d get a game here as a CF, unfortunately we don’t have much better at the moment. Personally, he gets in my team before Tosun.

 

[Eggs]

That just proves he's fit enough for that league.

He's not fit enough for our league tho.

United wouldn't have sold him on if he was still capable of his 2007 form

..being not good enough and unfit are different points.

 

[Frang]

..being not good enough and unfit are different points.

He's still good enough.. But for ten games a season.

I've highlighted in previous posts that his premier league game is shot anyhow

Not what we want

 

[ToffeeTim]

His comments about midfield are daft. The night he scored a hat trick he was in midfield. The 2 he got against Swansea were in midfield.

He was absolutely woeful at centre forward. Totally appalling. And given our lack of quality on the ball it made sense to move him back. He's trying to sound all selfless but he simply didn't merit a start up top. He either played midfield of he was on the bench.

 

[Groucho]

For just this season, and jettisoned Tosun instead. We all know he's on the wane but stick him up front with orders to stay in and around the box and I reckon he could have been effective, especially with the service he would have got from Richarlison, Walcott and the Brazilian magician.

Nah mate.

Where’s he fitting in between the players you mention? Certainly not in place of Siggurddsson.

 

[Tipp blue]

Rooney is done, hell Rooney was done 3 years ago. Should never have had him back, I said it at the time, I said it while he was back and I say it now. 150K a week would have been better spent on a younger better player.

 

[PickeringBlue]

The fact that Sigs is really lighting it up is a direct result of him being back playing in his best position. This is also Rooney's best position and at this point in their careers Sigs is streets ahead. So no, it is definitely good that we jettisoned him. It is good to see that he's made and impact in MLS and has been a big factor in DC United going from basement dwellers to playoff contenders.