http://www1.skysports.com/football/...eded-at-Man-Utd-as-cover-for-Robin-van-Persie "Overall, my thought on Wayne is, if for any reasons we had an injury to Robin van Persie, we'll need him."
Wrong mentality from Moyes. He's still working with the limited resources mentality, the idea that he has a first XI and then back up players to fill in for injuries and sit on the bench, followed by young players that have potential. Thats ok when you are only playing domestic games (league and cups) and frankly don't really stand a chance of winning any of them. Man U will be playing all those and European games and will be wanting to win at least one of the competitions they enter. Long story short big clubs need rotation in order to keep everyone fit. Looking at Man U's squad they're going to need Rooney, unless they are suddenly going to go out and buy half a team. Telling Shrek that he's a backup player is hardly going to win him over.
I think its an amazing comment that shows the position. its clear that utd don't want him by that comment but it seems that rather than buy a real player they will hang onto rooney.... think about that. you can sell then spend that 50mil profit on a real forward but you'd rather stick... that's not great thinking... you need to drive on not let malcontent split the camp. If they don't want him they should be showing him this by buying a 30mil player then saying want to play... stop smoking drinking and whoring and get fit... want to leave then go... now....
Like I've said several times before, my mate told me that Rooney didn't ask for a move. Ferguson lied. He wanted rid and I assume he conferred with Moyes prior to.
Given what happened a couple of years ago, SirExLax knew the fans would eat up another 'disloyalty' rumour...
What motive would Fergie have for lying about such a thing, something that is surely verifiable one way or another? A spiteful end-game manoeuvre against a player who pissed him off before? Seems unlikely to me. More likely is that Wazza handed in his request, had it turned down, and now the club is trying to play it down. Moyes' comments, if accurately reported, do seem clumsy though, and are hardly going to go down well with him. Fun times.
Motivation? Gives Moyes the opportunity to sell Schreck for £££'s and still get a free ride from the fans for selling a player who might still be considered a key player. Given the disruption it caused last time (the hookers and transfer request from Schreck), SirExLax and Moyes might have decided to cook this one up between them to ease out a player whose bellicosity towards the incoming manager was well known after the book came out...
Perhaps I'm missing something but why then say it didn't happen? As I said earlier, the truth is surely verifiable and someone is going to come out of it looking stupid ( not talking about Wayne here- he looks stupid at the best of times).
RHC already said that Schreck's denial was printed as a correction in a couple of papers, but, as we all know, Headlines get cross-the-page coverage, whereas apologies and corrections get lost several pages inside at the bottom of a column...
Meanwhile Suarez watches these developments with glee from his super secret evil layer inside a dormant Uruguayan volcano.
With an eye patch and black cat whilst Peter Crouch (Inspector Gadget) stumbles over the answers... (****, that got weird fast)
Breaking news on the yellow ticker on sky sports news... "Wayne Rooney angry and confused by Manchester united comments on his future" Just gets better.
