I have read what people have said re our form and last night v basle The one player who has IMO been underperforming for a while has been Rooney That miss last night was awful from the cross by Nani, other shots were bad too Basle second goal was a result of him losing the ball, which happens an awful lot No doubt he can perform on his day, but when he is in this mode its like having 10 players People moan about the midfield and yes it could do with strengthening (although injuries are the issue for me to the lakes of ando and clev), however with chicha and rooney in this mode we have effectively 9 players. Chich is a fox in the box and has very little to his game outside the oppositions box Berb is obviously not preferred, owen always injured, macheda is not PL quality we need strikers
rooney will always be a striker who goes on a mad hot streak then does **** all else for 10 games. has for years and always will.
yeah I realise that and when we have someone taking that burden off him its ok, last season during his barren spell berba stepped up as did chicha This season the goals are not really coming from anywhere, Well phil jones last 2 games He looked on the edge last night too, and I thought he was going to do something silly and get sent off
I'd play rooney in midfield, he looks more like a combative goal scoring midifelder than an out and out striker really, young and nani on either wing, someone like anderson next to him in the middle, and chico and welbeck upfront
I dont think rooney is or ever will be a midfielder tbh. He will get away with it with smaller teams but he has never really been good at keeping the ball and apart from his cross field ball (mainly when valencia is playing) neither is his passing. My ideal team at the moment would see Rooney leading the line with nani behind him and young and valencia on the wings, carrick and jones in midfield Or even give park the position he plays and excells in for his country
I don't blame him for the miss last night. Even though the commentators didn't mention it, it was clear that the ball stuck in the mud and didn't bounce as high as he was expecting. Rooney actually did well to keep a lid on his temper last night. But if we don't improve over the next couple of years, then I'm fully expecting him to hand in another transfer request.
Rooney, Young and Hernandez work wonders together. It's unlucky Hernandez wasn't fit for yesterday but I would've played Welbeck instead of Park.
Rooney was playing well when he had that hair transplant thingy.... Now his head has rejected his hair and it's starting to thin again so are his performances. Just goes to show you can stick hair on a potato but you can't always make it grow.
But he's good enough to learn/improve his passing pretty quickly, and i'm sure he can keep the ball if needed or his quick and strong enough to win it back, and it would mean he can run up and down until his hearts content, which he loves! look at this attributes not as rooney the striker, but just as a player and tell me you wouldn't love someone like that in your midfield?
The goals were coming from Hernandez before he got injured. Rooney has to play deep to help out our weak central midfield.
I thought "benching" was a football euphamism for some deviant practice in Manchester. It was quite disappointing to find you only wanted to drop him. Being of the older generation I like to keep up with modern expressions.......... As a casual observer who watched the match on the box last night I thought Rooney looked quite isolated up front on his own for most of the match and to be honest he also looked like he really wanted to kick somebody but daddy had told him he would be grounded if he did anything wrong. It was just his demeanor that suggested that.
