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Rooney Quits!
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N1k0s287
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C'mon lads...we all know Rooney and Fergie admire eachother...look at fergy now at the black cats match..hes as happy as a fat boy with cake talking to moyes...after all i am very close with rooney...
(location) LOLWUT?
(location) LOLWUT?
If we get Adebayor I will fly every Man United supporter who regularly posts in this forum to Old Trafford and burn that mother****er down.
Most suitable club would be Bayern imo. Klose ageing and on his final legs, Schwein/Robben/Ribery to work with, competitive but not overly demanding league, etc.
He wouldn't settle in Barcelona, outsiders/foreigners are treated suspiciously, very cliquey. He'd be better off at R.Madrid. And I don't think he'd like playing in Italy. The media there would be in his face as much as the British tabloids.
He won't go anywhere this winter because he's cup-tied but next summer I can't see him commanding a fee greater than 40m GBP given he only has 12 months to run.
But ... I reckon he'll re-sign.
He wouldn't settle in Barcelona, outsiders/foreigners are treated suspiciously, very cliquey. He'd be better off at R.Madrid. And I don't think he'd like playing in Italy. The media there would be in his face as much as the British tabloids.
He won't go anywhere this winter because he's cup-tied but next summer I can't see him commanding a fee greater than 40m GBP given he only has 12 months to run.
But ... I reckon he'll re-sign.
manureid
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Rooney for Adebayor + 80 million
or
Rooney for 50 million.....
ie, you would have to pay us extra to take that shunt!
or
Rooney for 50 million.....
ie, you would have to pay us extra to take that shunt!
Bomber Bears
Cancelled
For 18 months we saw the stories about Vidic leaving, not happy, wife unhappy. Chilling of realtions with Taggert, exactly they same things that are being stated about Rooney.
This whole thing is about money, nothing else, don't be fooled.
Now Vidic re signs, all of a sudden he is captain, the world is a happy place again.
He will re sign, this is all about the agent and manager getting the biggest cut they can.
This whole thing is about money, nothing else, don't be fooled.
Now Vidic re signs, all of a sudden he is captain, the world is a happy place again.
He will re sign, this is all about the agent and manager getting the biggest cut they can.
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Looking forward to the Special 1TV ep this week then
Apparently an overseas move is off the table 'cause Rooney's wife's sister is pretty ill.
She has Rett syndrome and had a stroke recently.
Dude, she's twelve years old.
They're a pretty rough bunch all right. Wayne's brother and Colleen's cousin are an item, you should see the state of them.
It's like a slightly melted waxwork of Wayne and Colleen.
It's like a slightly melted waxwork of Wayne and Colleen.
But she does live in England...
True.
Enjoyable read from EuroSport
Early Doors: Not just Rooney looking after No1
Perhaps Wayne Rooney should follow Roy Keane's advice about "looking after number one". Everyone else seems to be.
The reports that Wayne Rooney wants to leave Manchester United continue to rumble on, and everybody has now got their teeth firmly sunk into the story.
Like the government's spending review, or the continued existence of Jedward, this is one of those issues on which everyone has an opinion.
And when there are opinions to be bandied about, where better to look than Portman Road? Ever since Roy Keane took over at Ipswich Town, his press conferences have often been less about dispensing the latest Tractor Boys team news and more about him setting the world to rights.
In fairness, he is only answering questions being put to him, but he clearly enjoys his role as a quasi-pundit. So when asked about the reports that Rooney wants out of Old Trafford he was typically forthcoming.
He said: "If I was to offer advice to Wayne, who is a good lad, I would tell him to make sure he looks after number one.
"Players and managers fall out all the time. It is part of life. Players are pieces of meat - that's how I look at it. When your time's up, your time's up."
Considering the nature of the tabloid allegations at the root of this whole issue, the phrase "pieces of meat" may be a little unfortunate, but the former United skipper does have a point.
According to one of The Sun's seven pages of coverage on the matter, United manager Alex Ferguson has not spoken to Rooney for a month, ever since the scandal first hit the front pages.
How do we know this? Why, a well-placed source of course, one who has that uncanny ability to speak exactly in the same style as the newspaper they are informing.
The source said: "Wayne doesn't just feel frozen out, he feels like he's been put into deep freeze."
If there is any truth in the story, then you have to question Ferguson's reaction.
Yes, he is well within his rights to make a moral point out Rooney's alleged indiscretions, with United being just one of the many global brands the player is paid so highly to represent.
But if all that were stripped away, he would still be handsomely paid to play football. The same would not be true the other way around.
Rooney is still United's star player, and they have suffered for his loss of form, drawing five of their opening games. They have already dropped six points from winning positions so far this season, twice as many as they did for the whole of last term.
Surely it's in Ferguson's interest to do whatever it takes to get his main man right in the head playing well again. A fit and firing Rooney would not only arrest (if not reverse) United's decline but, if he did still want to leave, he would be an even more lucrative prospect on the transfer market.
Ferguson has a long history of falling out with star players and shipping them out, but he has always had plenty of quality in his squads to back his decisions, and plenty of money to spend. Now, with both a lot thinner on the ground, will preserving his reputation at the expense of losing last season's double Player of the Year be a self-preserving step too far?
We may get some answers today when Fergie takes his pre-match presser ahead of tomorrow's Champions League clash at home to Bursaspor. After just two newspapers were invited to his appearance yesterday to announce the club's new deal to donate to UNICEF, in which questions about Rooney were banned, the continent's most rabid hacks will be on his case today.
With not a word being uttered publicly from either camp on the matter yet, the media has already been forced to start eating itself, reporting on the 'speculation intensifying' in the absence of anything new to add from those involved.
Even when a solid news line emerges, it is ignored in favour of the more sensationalist angle. Real Madrid, supposedly the most likely destination for Rooney just 24 hours ago, have twice come out and said Rooney will not be joining them in January.
Real director Jorge Valdano ("In January there will be neither ins nor outs") and manager Jose Mourinho ("I don't think he will (leave). I think the big man (Ferguson) will persuade him to stay") have both played down the idea, but instead attentions have switched to imagining the sort of money Rooney could receive at Manchester City and mocking up images of him wearing a sky blue shirt in Photoshop.
In the midst of all this, take a moment to think of Rooney's agent, Paul Stretford, who will be rubbing his hands together at the prospect of the bumper fee he will net for his client either moving on or signing a new United deal. There is more than one party in this affair looking out for number one.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Gordon is a man of great integrity. He has torn up his contract and walked away without compensation because he felt it was in the best interests of this football club. There are very few managers who have ever done that but that is the mark of the man." - Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson may have a reputation for being too loyal to failing managers, but when they leave it always seems to be on the nicest possible terms. Expect "obvious candidate" Tony Mowbray to be booted out of Teesside with a smile on his face in about a year's time.
FOREIGN VIEW: "In the Premiership referees are calmer" - Villarreal midfielder Borja Valero, formerly of West Brom, blasts card-happy Spanish officials after he scored and was one of three players sent off in last night's 2-2 draw at Hercules which saw The Yellow Submarine once again blow the chance to go top of La Liga for the first time in their history.
HEADLINE OF THE DAY: "Later, w*nkers: Rooney has told Man U he's quitting." - Fox Sports' way of breaking the news about Rooney.
COMING UP: Plenty of Premier League video action and analysis today. First up is out Team of the Week which, to be honest, could have been posted yesterday afternoon, as Sunderland's drab goalless draw at Blackburn won't have changed things much.
In addition, there will be the latest instalment of the Euro Club Index, and resident Armchair Pundit Alex Chick will have his two cents worth.
After a few weeks' break, the udders of the cash cow that is the Champions League group stage are ready for another good milking. Things get underway with Spartak Moscow v Chelsea (17:30) before the evening's seven other matches - including Arsenal v Shakhtar Donetsk and Real Madrid v Milan - kick off at 19:45.
Early Doors: Not just Rooney looking after No1
Perhaps Wayne Rooney should follow Roy Keane's advice about "looking after number one". Everyone else seems to be.
The reports that Wayne Rooney wants to leave Manchester United continue to rumble on, and everybody has now got their teeth firmly sunk into the story.
Like the government's spending review, or the continued existence of Jedward, this is one of those issues on which everyone has an opinion.
And when there are opinions to be bandied about, where better to look than Portman Road? Ever since Roy Keane took over at Ipswich Town, his press conferences have often been less about dispensing the latest Tractor Boys team news and more about him setting the world to rights.
In fairness, he is only answering questions being put to him, but he clearly enjoys his role as a quasi-pundit. So when asked about the reports that Rooney wants out of Old Trafford he was typically forthcoming.
He said: "If I was to offer advice to Wayne, who is a good lad, I would tell him to make sure he looks after number one.
"Players and managers fall out all the time. It is part of life. Players are pieces of meat - that's how I look at it. When your time's up, your time's up."
Considering the nature of the tabloid allegations at the root of this whole issue, the phrase "pieces of meat" may be a little unfortunate, but the former United skipper does have a point.
According to one of The Sun's seven pages of coverage on the matter, United manager Alex Ferguson has not spoken to Rooney for a month, ever since the scandal first hit the front pages.
How do we know this? Why, a well-placed source of course, one who has that uncanny ability to speak exactly in the same style as the newspaper they are informing.
The source said: "Wayne doesn't just feel frozen out, he feels like he's been put into deep freeze."
If there is any truth in the story, then you have to question Ferguson's reaction.
Yes, he is well within his rights to make a moral point out Rooney's alleged indiscretions, with United being just one of the many global brands the player is paid so highly to represent.
But if all that were stripped away, he would still be handsomely paid to play football. The same would not be true the other way around.
Rooney is still United's star player, and they have suffered for his loss of form, drawing five of their opening games. They have already dropped six points from winning positions so far this season, twice as many as they did for the whole of last term.
Surely it's in Ferguson's interest to do whatever it takes to get his main man right in the head playing well again. A fit and firing Rooney would not only arrest (if not reverse) United's decline but, if he did still want to leave, he would be an even more lucrative prospect on the transfer market.
Ferguson has a long history of falling out with star players and shipping them out, but he has always had plenty of quality in his squads to back his decisions, and plenty of money to spend. Now, with both a lot thinner on the ground, will preserving his reputation at the expense of losing last season's double Player of the Year be a self-preserving step too far?
We may get some answers today when Fergie takes his pre-match presser ahead of tomorrow's Champions League clash at home to Bursaspor. After just two newspapers were invited to his appearance yesterday to announce the club's new deal to donate to UNICEF, in which questions about Rooney were banned, the continent's most rabid hacks will be on his case today.
With not a word being uttered publicly from either camp on the matter yet, the media has already been forced to start eating itself, reporting on the 'speculation intensifying' in the absence of anything new to add from those involved.
Even when a solid news line emerges, it is ignored in favour of the more sensationalist angle. Real Madrid, supposedly the most likely destination for Rooney just 24 hours ago, have twice come out and said Rooney will not be joining them in January.
Real director Jorge Valdano ("In January there will be neither ins nor outs") and manager Jose Mourinho ("I don't think he will (leave). I think the big man (Ferguson) will persuade him to stay") have both played down the idea, but instead attentions have switched to imagining the sort of money Rooney could receive at Manchester City and mocking up images of him wearing a sky blue shirt in Photoshop.
In the midst of all this, take a moment to think of Rooney's agent, Paul Stretford, who will be rubbing his hands together at the prospect of the bumper fee he will net for his client either moving on or signing a new United deal. There is more than one party in this affair looking out for number one.
- - -
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Gordon is a man of great integrity. He has torn up his contract and walked away without compensation because he felt it was in the best interests of this football club. There are very few managers who have ever done that but that is the mark of the man." - Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson may have a reputation for being too loyal to failing managers, but when they leave it always seems to be on the nicest possible terms. Expect "obvious candidate" Tony Mowbray to be booted out of Teesside with a smile on his face in about a year's time.
FOREIGN VIEW: "In the Premiership referees are calmer" - Villarreal midfielder Borja Valero, formerly of West Brom, blasts card-happy Spanish officials after he scored and was one of three players sent off in last night's 2-2 draw at Hercules which saw The Yellow Submarine once again blow the chance to go top of La Liga for the first time in their history.
HEADLINE OF THE DAY: "Later, w*nkers: Rooney has told Man U he's quitting." - Fox Sports' way of breaking the news about Rooney.
COMING UP: Plenty of Premier League video action and analysis today. First up is out Team of the Week which, to be honest, could have been posted yesterday afternoon, as Sunderland's drab goalless draw at Blackburn won't have changed things much.
In addition, there will be the latest instalment of the Euro Club Index, and resident Armchair Pundit Alex Chick will have his two cents worth.
After a few weeks' break, the udders of the cash cow that is the Champions League group stage are ready for another good milking. Things get underway with Spartak Moscow v Chelsea (17:30) before the evening's seven other matches - including Arsenal v Shakhtar Donetsk and Real Madrid v Milan - kick off at 19:45.
SebastianVettel
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They're a pretty rough bunch all right. Wayne's brother and Colleen's cousin are an item, you should see the state of them.
It's like a slightly melted waxwork of Wayne and Colleen.
Holy ****ing shit, you can't tell the difference. That's astonishing.
This image is disturbing.They're a pretty rough bunch all right. Wayne's brother and Colleen's cousin are an item, you should see the state of them.
It's like a slightly melted waxwork of Wayne and Colleen.
To be fair they were actually being paid to be look-alikes on that occasion.
Even so.
Even so.
They're a pretty rough bunch all right. Wayne's brother and Colleen's cousin are an item, you should see the state of them.
It's like a slightly melted waxwork of Wayne and Colleen.
i laughed for about 5 minutes. Am I a bad person?
