Wayne Rooney

[Optimistic Nut]

I'm not, but they all peaked long before they should have done.

[SEMTEX]

I'm not sure Danny Cadamarteri ever peaked tbh, he's been going at a steady 1-in-10 ratio since he first kicked a ball.

[Village Idiot]

Plus Cadamarteri isn't a scouse.

[mrmojorisin75]

neither is owen

[Optimistic Nut]

Must be something about the Scouse genes (or starting in Liverpool), which means your career reaches it's peak at 23-24.

 

[Nobody]

Hope he goes to Chelsea, a Drogba-Rooney partnership would be fantastic to see.

 

Except when they are playing us, of course.

[mrmojorisin75]

Must be something about the Scouse genes (or starting in Liverpool), which means your career reaches it's peak at 23-24.

 

 

[Guest Stephen927]

Needs to forget a lot of what Fergie has told him and go back to the player we saw for England in 2004. Otherwise...

 

 

http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/8754/rooneytunes.jpg

[Dinho lad]

Needs to forget a lot of what Fergie has told him and go back to the player we saw for England in 2004. Otherwise...

 

 

http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/8754/rooneytunes.jpg

 

yeah... fergie did kinda fuck him up as a player. It was actually capello that told him to play rooney through the middle last year, which got the best out of him.

[SUPERTOON]

All the Man Utd fans saying he is ungrateful because they made him the player he is. They said the sam about Ronaldo, its rubbish, don't get me wrong Man Utd helped them massively but it is at nthe end of the day the players who put the work in to become world class.

[WarrenBartonCentrePartin]

Swannyg66

All this Rooney stuff makes me wonder why the same furore didn't surround albert luque's departure from newcastle

[Village Idiot]

All the Man Utd fans saying he is ungrateful because they made him the player he is. They said the sam about Ronaldo, its rubbish, don't get me wrong Man Utd helped them massively but it is at nthe end of the day the players who put the work in to become world class.

 

I love it how in this whole saga the way he left Everton is conveniently swept under the carpet.

[steve_69]

And I give you Alan Smith.

He went to Man Utd a decent striker and left as a shit midfielder.

[Hughesy]

I'll never quite understand how or why people criticise players for leaving for money.  If I was Rooney and was acknowledged as being one of the top 10 players in the world and saw other such players being paid double what I was, I would want parity with them (see Messi, Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic's wage for example).  It's the same in any job - if you are not paid the market rate for your skills, you are bound to be unhappy.  I would be pretty annoyed if someone as good as me was being paid double my salary.

 

People just seem to apply a different set of rules to footballers and I can't work out why.  Football is a job to most footballers.  End of.

[dustynrg]

Was Stretford his Agent when all that "He's going to Newcastle " shite happened? Of course now we know it was all garbage. He had no intention of coming here ever, something cooked up by his "people" to get Ferguson and the ManU board moving (who knows Ferguson may have been involved anarl).

 

So who's to say this isn't a game to get Man U to pay him 250k a week? He may think he's so loved by the fans he will be able to play that game, but it's a very dangerous game to play. Or he might have a move finalised already.

 

 

[NG32]

I'll never quite understand how or why people criticise players for leaving for money.  If I was Rooney and was acknowledged as being one of the top 10 players in the world and saw other such players being paid double what I was, I would want parity with them (see Messi, Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic's wage for example).  It's the same in any job - if you are not paid the market rate for your skills, you are bound to be unhappy.  I would be pretty annoyed if someone as good as me was being paid double my salary.

 

People just seem to apply a different set of rules to footballers and I can't work out why.  Football is a job to most footballers.  End of.

 

Because its generally unrealistic.  He should have some fucking common sense and realise that Ya Ya Toure is on over the top wages because they are backed by lunatic arabs.

 

No fucking player is worth 200k plus a weel.  No one.

 

Very few clubs can pay the overinflated prices for players, no matter how good they are.

 

I bet Man U offered him a fair wedge.

 

THis is exactly whats wrong with football, its all about earnings amongst the players rather then the sport itself.

 

I can just picture the England camp now after losng to Germany, all sittign about smoking cigars bemoaning their wages.

 

Fuck off you greedy cunts, you have a repsosibility towards the game yourselves.

 

 

[steve_69]

I'll never quite understand how or why people criticise players for leaving for money.  If I was Rooney and was acknowledged as being one of the top 10 players in the world and saw other such players being paid double what I was, I would want parity with them (see Messi, Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic's wage for example).  It's the same in any job - if you are not paid the market rate for your skills, you are bound to be unhappy.  I would be pretty annoyed if someone as good as me was being paid double my salary.

 

People just seem to apply a different set of rules to footballers and I can't work out why.  Football is a job to most footballers.  End of.

 

Because its generally unrealistic.   He should have some f***ing common sense and realise that Ya Ya Toure is on over the top wages because they are backed by lunatic arabs.

 

No f***ing player is worth 200k plus a weel.  No one.

 

Very few clubs can pay the overinflated prices for players, no matter how good they are.

 

I bet Man U offered him a fair wedge.

 

THis is exactly whats wrong with football, its all about earnings amongst the players rather then the sport itself.

 

I can just picture the England camp now after losng to Germany, all sittign about smoking cigars bemoaning their wages.

 

f*** off you greedy c***s, you have a repsosibility towards the game yourselves.

 

 

 

Rooney has won every trophy there is to win in the domestic game apart from the League Cup, which he's probably not arsed about anyway.

A move to Man City will probably guarantee him more trophies than he's likely to win at Man Utd over the next 7-8 years, as well as a shitload of cash.

Add to that the prospect of playing in front of proper football fans instead of plastic cockney wankers and it seems like a no-brainer to me.

[Hughesy]

I just don't get that.  We live in a free market, where people are paid what they are worth. 

 

Who are you to say no footballer is worth 200k a week?  Are film stars 'worth' £10 million a film?  Are pop stars worth £4 million an album (plucking these figures out of the air now...)?  Are F1 drivers worth £20 million a year?  Are basketball players worth £20 million a year?  Do you think the above are all sitting there doing it for the love of cinema/music/ sport?  No... and why should they?

 

Football is a global business.  This whole idea that footballers shouldn't be allowed to maximise their earnings is outdated and overly simplistic.

[NG32]

I just don't get that.  We live in a free market, where people are paid what they are worth. 

 

Who are you to say no footballer is worth 200k a week?  Are film stars 'worth' £10 million a film?  Are pop stars worth £4 million an album (plucking these figures out of the air now...)?  Are F1 drivers worth £20 million a year?  Are basketball players worth £20 million a year?  Do you think the above are all sitting there doing it for the love of cinema/music/ sport?  No... and why should they?

 

Football is a global business.  This whole idea that footballers shouldn't be allowed to maximise their earnings is outdated and overly simplistic.

 

No footballer is worth 200k a week, fuck me man, the game will seriously suffer if this is the shit thats happening with players an agents.

 

The clubs, the owners of the clubs, the players/ players union/TV all have a collective responsibility to keep the league competitive.

 

Paying greedy one track minded footballers 200k a week is not one of the ways to do this.

 

Whats going to happen when UEFA enforce the new rules?  How will Man City and other funded clubs like themselves resolve rediculous wage structures?

 

 

Dont just sit and think "this is great its man citys turn now".  It not great for the league as a whole, it will turn fans away.

 

Who is to say the next TV deal with Sky wont be less ??  We have massive cuts and peopel losing jobs coming up.

 

Fucking thinking about it for a second man.

 

 

 

 

[Hanshithispantz]

I'll never quite understand how or why people criticise players for leaving for money.  If I was Rooney and was acknowledged as being one of the top 10 players in the world and saw other such players being paid double what I was, I would want parity with them (see Messi, Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic's wage for example).  It's the same in any job - if you are not paid the market rate for your skills, you are bound to be unhappy.  I would be pretty annoyed if someone as good as me was being paid double my salary.

 

People just seem to apply a different set of rules to footballers and I can't work out why.  Football is a job to most footballers.  End of.

 

Because its generally unrealistic.   He should have some f***ing common sense and realise that Ya Ya Toure is on over the top wages because they are backed by lunatic arabs.

 

No f***ing player is worth 200k plus a weel.  No one.

 

Very few clubs can pay the overinflated prices for players, no matter how good they are.

 

I bet Man U offered him a fair wedge.

 

THis is exactly whats wrong with football, its all about earnings amongst the players rather then the sport itself.

 

I can just picture the England camp now after losng to Germany, all sittign about smoking cigars bemoaning their wages.

 

f*** off you greedy c***s, you have a repsosibility towards the game yourselves.

 

 

 

Rooney has won every trophy there is to win in the domestic game apart from the League Cup, which he's probably not arsed about anyway.

A move to Man City will probably guarantee him more trophies than he's likely to win at Man Utd over the next 7-8 years, as well as a shitload of cash.

Add to that the prospect of playing in front of proper football fans instead of plastic cockney wankers and it seems like a no-brainer to me.

Man City... Proper fans?

[Hanshithispantz]

And i'm with NorthernGimp. I cannot bemoan a player been paid what he's worth, at the end of the day he's earned that right by been one of the best in the country through he's own hard work in a well paying job, however you should have some morales towards the fans who effectively pay your fucking wages.

[NG32]

Needs to forget a lot of what Fergie has told him and go back to the player we saw for England in 2004. Otherwise...

 

 

http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/8754/rooneytunes.jpg

 

Class!

[BlueStar]

Be absolutely piss funny if he went to city, make it happen.

[Fugazi]

I'll never quite understand how or why people criticise players for leaving for money.  If I was Rooney and was acknowledged as being one of the top 10 players in the world and saw other such players being paid double what I was, I would want parity with them (see Messi, Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic's wage for example).  It's the same in any job - if you are not paid the market rate for your skills, you are bound to be unhappy.  I would be pretty annoyed if someone as good as me was being paid double my salary.

 

People just seem to apply a different set of rules to footballers and I can't work out why.  Football is a job to most footballers.  End of.

 

Because its generally unrealistic.   He should have some f***ing common sense and realise that Ya Ya Toure is on over the top wages because they are backed by lunatic arabs.

 

No f***ing player is worth 200k plus a weel.  No one.

 

Very few clubs can pay the overinflated prices for players, no matter how good they are.

 

I bet Man U offered him a fair wedge.

 

THis is exactly whats wrong with football, its all about earnings amongst the players rather then the sport itself.

 

I can just picture the England camp now after losng to Germany, all sittign about smoking cigars bemoaning their wages.

 

f*** off you greedy c***s, you have a repsosibility towards the game yourselves.

 

 

 

Rooney has won every trophy there is to win in the domestic game apart from the League Cup, which he's probably not arsed about anyway.

A move to Man City will probably guarantee him more trophies than he's likely to win at Man Utd over the next 7-8 years, as well as a shitload of cash.

Add to that the prospect of playing in front of proper football fans instead of plastic cockney wankers and it seems like a no-brainer to me.

Man City... Proper fans?

 

They've always had decent fans tbf

[Doug]

Sitting here reading this thread with the chancellor Osborne making his speech on the radio saying how the country has run out of money and we have all got to take the pain together.

Its surreal