gaino92
Power level over 9000
I would imagine any club would be willing to let him go if he is only going to be a bit part player sat on 150k a week
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billyblue80
Player Valuation: £70m
See ya Wayne
GwladysBlue
Player Valuation: £70m
I was hurt and disappointed when he abandoned us back in 2004. Swings and roundabouts.
Toast
Player Valuation: £80m
Saw the pics in the paper yesterday.
His lad looks proper sunburned.
Must be half term holidays early up north I guess.
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
There will always be a contribution he could make if he stayed, question is how much. There again he is not worth 150K per week if that is the right figure. So as Neiler says a move would great for all.
Osamabindiesel
Player Valuation: £70m
It’s no surprise to me that the second he joined, we have one of the most disjointed seasons in memory. Some moments of quality here and there, but he killed our attacks when he played up top/behind the striker.
You can’t shoehorn somebody like that into your squad. I’m convinced that he is the main reason Koeman got fired (for the best tbf). Unfortunately, it turned out exactly the way I predicted. He played too much and it really hurt the team.
You can’t shoehorn somebody like that into your squad. I’m convinced that he is the main reason Koeman got fired (for the best tbf). Unfortunately, it turned out exactly the way I predicted. He played too much and it really hurt the team.
Lookman, DCL, Davies, Vlasic - they've all benefited from playing together. Tosun commented on it and so has Gylfi.
I don't have an issue with letting him go, as long as we replace him.
Completely different types of player and people, though.
Ronaldo is superhuman but part of that is genetics as well. It's not all down to discipline/training.
Ronaldo has also been playing in LaLiga - a much slower league overall - for the past nine years. Rooney has been in the PL for 16 years.
While I'm not saying the Prem is the best league, it is the most intense over the course of a season.
Ronaldo has managed to perfect a role in recent years of actually doing very little in a game - his effort is reserved for short, sharp bursts of pace and pieces of magic.
Rooney has never been that player. He has always been an 'all action' player who tries to put himself about.
That's not Rooney's fault though. It's the management.
His role in the side should have been clear from the outset.
I think the club needs to seriously think twice before signing any more veteran 'name' players.
Set aside our history with Rooney, his signing and subsequent release is comparable with when we brought Eto'o in. You get the odd boss performance but ultimately we're not making a statement. We're taking ageing players not deemed to be elite any more from the clubs we aspire to challenge. For the money spent on wages (and nominal fee as part of the Lukaku deal in Rooneys case) surely there has to be a smarter way to improve the quality of the squad.
Set aside our history with Rooney, his signing and subsequent release is comparable with when we brought Eto'o in. You get the odd boss performance but ultimately we're not making a statement. We're taking ageing players not deemed to be elite any more from the clubs we aspire to challenge. For the money spent on wages (and nominal fee as part of the Lukaku deal in Rooneys case) surely there has to be a smarter way to improve the quality of the squad.
windymiller
Player Valuation: £70m
When was his last good performance, though? Months ago. Time has caught up to him and if the media reports of him wanting "assurances" about first team appearances then it is best for everyone for him to leave before this goes sour.
I think that's doing Ronaldo a disservice. He is at the level he is because of his desire, not genetic luck.
Rooney chooses to drink and smoke. They say a picture speaks a thousand words, so...
windymiller
Player Valuation: £70m
Absolutely this ^^
Too many people on here hate him because of the "once a blue....." Man U debacle and won't take a balanced view
Too many people on here love him because of a nostalgic attachment to the player he was and the "bring a blue home" nonsense peddled by Bill
Breaking it down dispassionately like this makes it plain that £150K a week for a player who insists on playing, has a moderate influence on results and has a history of agent-led shenanigans when he doesn't get his own way makes no sense from a sporting or fiscal standpoint, particularly when you factor in a willing party in DC United.
Why is he trying to eat a bowling ball ???
Brendan Janus
Player Valuation: £40m
He gives the ball away a lot for £150k per week !
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