Maybe step up and be the star ?
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Maybe step up and be the star ?
Well, announcing that the player wants to leave is just going to drive his price down aswell, best we can hope for is City to be...well...City and dirve up the price with Madrid/Inter/Chelsea/Barca. (the only teams I think can afford him).
We have some massive rebuilding to do now. Always thought Rooney was so happy at MUFC and he always said he wanted to end his career here. Typical though, he screws up in his private life and now his the one who can't handle the repercussions.
One thing I know for sure is that during my time of supporting this club and this legendary manager, greater players have come and gone, and we have moved on to better things. Trust in SAF and have faith and a bit of patience that we will prevail.
Best of luck to whoever the scouser decides to join.
Once a Blue, Now a Red...then a White??
We have some massive rebuilding to do now. Always thought Rooney was so happy at MUFC and he always said he wanted to end his career here. Typical though, he screws up in his private life and now his the one who can't handle the repercussions.
One thing I know for sure is that during my time of supporting this club and this legendary manager, greater players have come and gone, and we have moved on to better things. Trust in SAF and have faith and a bit of patience that we will prevail.
Best of luck to whoever the scouser decides to join.
Once a Blue, Now a Red...then a White??
Intentionally, publicly contradicted his manager? Did you miss that?
As I said, he hasn't even had the decency to provide the club with a reason as to why he wants to leave. A couple of months ago he wanted to stay for the rest of his career. I think after all they have done for him, the very least they can expect is an explanation.
feck off moron, things are going well for the club then? this debt, losing Rooney?
It's a bit weird to be honest, I think he thinks this is the perfect way to exit a club.
Obviously not. Just means to go out with a bit of respect rather than create a circus out of it. A la Ronaldo and not tevez.
They'll have known he wasn't signing, and things were looking frosty - they wouldn't have necessarily known that SAF was about to go public with the whole story.
Suddenly the whole team has to switch their stories from "problem, what problem" to "it's between the boss and Wayne"
Collymore claims he is told that Rooney is going to get 500k a week at City.
Would we sell to City though? With the squad they've got, and if they can get Rooney's head right, that could be essentially delivering them a Premier League.
Tevez created a circus to stay at United.
Rooney's done the opposite right when the season's begun.
Refusing to meet our manager to discuss contract....
Adamant on his decision to leave, doesn't want to discuss further
Telling us he would sign a life contract 6 fecking months ago
Pissing over Fergie during the ankle issue
Shit, how can you watch that Fergie interview and get the impression he's leaving on good terms?
Adamant on his decision to leave, doesn't want to discuss further
Telling us he would sign a life contract 6 fecking months ago
Pissing over Fergie during the ankle issue
Shit, how can you watch that Fergie interview and get the impression he's leaving on good terms?
Ronaldo was not only twice the player hes twice the man Rooney is.
Swings and roundabouts
The way I see it we will sign new players and move on, players move on , clubs move on, we move on. There will be another rooney , another ronaldo , another everyone in time.
The way I see it we will sign new players and move on, players move on , clubs move on, we move on. There will be another rooney , another ronaldo , another everyone in time.
His agents have been briefing the media on a daily basis to the effect that he wants out.
We would but id say it would have to be double what anyone else offered for us to do it
Nothing to do with the glazers at all. Get down to JJB and get a Chelsea top or something.
You said the club is sinking you Ihni binni dimi diniwiny anitaime...
Take a look at yourself. Remember who we are.
feck him, let him go. Whatever his reason is, don't really give a flying feck at all.
We've lost better players before and we survived, and of course we'll survive this. Ungrateful little shit.
We've lost better players before and we survived, and of course we'll survive this. Ungrateful little shit.
What d'you expect from a bin dipper, feck him. Was always shocked how so many reds warmed to the little scally the way they did, both Ronnie and Tevez were better men and better players.
It feels really weird boss. I've been brushing all of this off as a thing of fiction.
But frankly, I feel quite sickened by the whole thing. And honestly I don't want players like him anywhere near the club. What has United not given him? He has the honor, yes the fecking honor of playing understand Sir Alex Furguson, he is being payed millions and is supported by millions who love him, adore him, and would support him through thick and thin.
You know, it's sad because watching Rooney since he was 16, I felt I could relate to him. He seemed normal unlike the usual celebrity footballer. He's shown his true colors. Clearly we were all wrong about him.
Well, now we know how Everton fans felt.
But then again its Collymore. He could be on the booze again.
He was the guy who broke the Rooney wanted to leave story and has close contact with Rooneys agent.
To be fair his source was busy on the back seat of his car at the time so he easily could have misheard him.
I wonder when, and what, Rooney's going to come out and say. Surely he has to release some sort of statement now?
Why should it? We love the club and the manager hell of a lot more than Wayne Rooney.
As for our demise, United fans a lot older than I, lived through the 'dark days', all we've seen is success, if they survived it, I'm sure so can we.
It's all about the money !!!
Stretford-End.com has written an open letter to Wayne Rooney in response to the speculation that he wishes to leave Manchester United. The letter appears below, and has been sent to Rooney via the club.
Wayne,
Before you make the next move in this game of chess being played out with the media, think carefully.
Think about whether you really want to leave Manchester United.
We’re reading that “behind closed doors” you’re telling your team mates that you want to join City. Money is undoubtedly a factor, but the instigator is supposedly the breakdown in your relationship with Sir Alex Ferguson.
What has really caused this breakdown? Is it anything Sir Alex himself did, or is it his reaction to your own actions? If so, maybe, turning 25 this week should perhaps knock a bit of sense into you. You’re no longer able to blame your stubbornness on the belligerence of youth. Supporters can’t defend your indiscretions citing immaturity. And it’s because of this inability to defend you anymore that you seemingly are turning not only against the club but against the one person who has gone beyond the call of duty and at times sacrificed his own reputation to defend you.
You need to take responsibility one way or the other. Come out and say you want to stay, or that you want to leave.
We, the fans, will not only respect you a lot more, but we will know what’s going on, then. If you want to stay, then great. United supporters have a great tradition of rallying around heroes who have supposedly fallen off of their pedestal. Eric Cantona for Selhurst. Roy Keane and Rio Ferdinand for their contract “negotiation tactics”. You yourself, and Cristiano Ronaldo, in 2006 after the World Cup. Remember the way we took you both back in and supported you. We’re ready to back you.
If you want to leave, then be honest and say so, but a word of warning. Be honest with yourself. Blaming Sir Alex is putting the blame where it is least deserved. Even after your actions, he stood by you, and was giving you a break to sort out your life. He did that for your own good, for the benefit of your personal life, despite the effect your absence might have on the team. Attributing blame to anyone else is pure cowardice. If you want more money, if you really think being able to make a million pounds in a few weeks is not enough, when most of the world can only dream of that sum in a lifetime, then at least be honest enough to admit it. Don’t put the blame onto someone who has done everything to protect you and has helped you, sometimes in spite of yourself, achieve things in the game you could not have achieved anywhere else. You owe him so much, but the least you owe him is to not make him the villain in the piece. You owe it to him to publically state he has done everything to help you, but you want to leave.
But before you do that, think further still. Think of how you have done yourself no favours, and who else would go to such lengths to protect you. Who else would show the faith in you to come good. If you need an example, look at Paul Gascoigne. A player with the hopes and dreams of the country on his back, who struggled to cope, and whose career, then life, went to waste. A player who openly regrets turning his back on Sir Alex and United when he had the opportunity. Look at what happened to him without the right guidance and advice, and wonder if you really want to turn your back on all that you currently have? What good is money if your life goes to pot?
If you get your wish and you leave United, who will be there to help you next time – and, if this is your chosen path, and you’re absolving yourself of responsibility, then there will be a next time – you hit on hard times? There is no-one in any place that you think you will be able to go that will be able to protect you as much as Sir Alex does. And what effect will that have on your family? Once you leave the protection of United, you will be truly putting yourself in the goldfish bowl. Sure, you’ll be flavour of the month again for a short time. But when the initial furore wanes, and you find yourself in trouble again, the knives will be out, but you will have alienated those that matter in the game.
No-one at United wants you to leave. You’re part of the family. Even when Cristiano was getting the plaudits in 2007/08 and scoring the goals, we still recognised you as the heartbeat of the team. It was fitting that you scored the goal to crown us as World Champions. When you were booed by England fans and when the press panned you after South Africa and Germany, who were the fans backing you? After all your recent problems, who were the supporters still chanting your name for 70 minutes on Saturday, wanting your introduction, despite there clearly being something not right? We were. We stood by you, even though most of us disagreed with a passion with what you did. It went against what we believed as people, but we stood by you. Think about what you are doing to that relationship.
What happens to players after they leave United? Those who choose not to sign for us when they get the chance? Those who go on to bigger and better things are in a minority. Beckham? No. Ruud? No. Stam? No. Keane? No. Even Cristiano? Not at this stage. He’s learning the grass isn’t always greener, that other supporters aren’t quite as faithful or loyal as United supporters.
After all this, you still have a chance to put it right. You have two months before January, to put the rumours to rest. You can make a statement publically. You can do your talking on the pitch. Take that chance. Look at Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes. Look at Sir Bobby Charlton. Your chance to sit alongside them, to smash the goalscoring records, to notch this chapter as a minor hiccup, is in your hands. What does it matter, when you make as much money as you do, for an extra million here or there, when there is a chance of real footballing history? Stay at United and you will undoubtedly become our top scorer of all time. The top scorer of all time for the biggest club in the world? Surely that was one of things running through your mind in the playground?
If you come out now and state your desire to remain at United for the rest of your career – like you have in the past – then you will retain hero status before the press manage to wrestle it away from you in your silence.
But make no mistake, Wayne. United will move on with or without you. If you do move, it will be you who lives to regret it.
An Open Letter to Wayne Rooney | Manchester United Blog | The Stretty Rant
Wayne,
Before you make the next move in this game of chess being played out with the media, think carefully.
Think about whether you really want to leave Manchester United.
We’re reading that “behind closed doors” you’re telling your team mates that you want to join City. Money is undoubtedly a factor, but the instigator is supposedly the breakdown in your relationship with Sir Alex Ferguson.
What has really caused this breakdown? Is it anything Sir Alex himself did, or is it his reaction to your own actions? If so, maybe, turning 25 this week should perhaps knock a bit of sense into you. You’re no longer able to blame your stubbornness on the belligerence of youth. Supporters can’t defend your indiscretions citing immaturity. And it’s because of this inability to defend you anymore that you seemingly are turning not only against the club but against the one person who has gone beyond the call of duty and at times sacrificed his own reputation to defend you.
You need to take responsibility one way or the other. Come out and say you want to stay, or that you want to leave.
We, the fans, will not only respect you a lot more, but we will know what’s going on, then. If you want to stay, then great. United supporters have a great tradition of rallying around heroes who have supposedly fallen off of their pedestal. Eric Cantona for Selhurst. Roy Keane and Rio Ferdinand for their contract “negotiation tactics”. You yourself, and Cristiano Ronaldo, in 2006 after the World Cup. Remember the way we took you both back in and supported you. We’re ready to back you.
If you want to leave, then be honest and say so, but a word of warning. Be honest with yourself. Blaming Sir Alex is putting the blame where it is least deserved. Even after your actions, he stood by you, and was giving you a break to sort out your life. He did that for your own good, for the benefit of your personal life, despite the effect your absence might have on the team. Attributing blame to anyone else is pure cowardice. If you want more money, if you really think being able to make a million pounds in a few weeks is not enough, when most of the world can only dream of that sum in a lifetime, then at least be honest enough to admit it. Don’t put the blame onto someone who has done everything to protect you and has helped you, sometimes in spite of yourself, achieve things in the game you could not have achieved anywhere else. You owe him so much, but the least you owe him is to not make him the villain in the piece. You owe it to him to publically state he has done everything to help you, but you want to leave.
But before you do that, think further still. Think of how you have done yourself no favours, and who else would go to such lengths to protect you. Who else would show the faith in you to come good. If you need an example, look at Paul Gascoigne. A player with the hopes and dreams of the country on his back, who struggled to cope, and whose career, then life, went to waste. A player who openly regrets turning his back on Sir Alex and United when he had the opportunity. Look at what happened to him without the right guidance and advice, and wonder if you really want to turn your back on all that you currently have? What good is money if your life goes to pot?
If you get your wish and you leave United, who will be there to help you next time – and, if this is your chosen path, and you’re absolving yourself of responsibility, then there will be a next time – you hit on hard times? There is no-one in any place that you think you will be able to go that will be able to protect you as much as Sir Alex does. And what effect will that have on your family? Once you leave the protection of United, you will be truly putting yourself in the goldfish bowl. Sure, you’ll be flavour of the month again for a short time. But when the initial furore wanes, and you find yourself in trouble again, the knives will be out, but you will have alienated those that matter in the game.
No-one at United wants you to leave. You’re part of the family. Even when Cristiano was getting the plaudits in 2007/08 and scoring the goals, we still recognised you as the heartbeat of the team. It was fitting that you scored the goal to crown us as World Champions. When you were booed by England fans and when the press panned you after South Africa and Germany, who were the fans backing you? After all your recent problems, who were the supporters still chanting your name for 70 minutes on Saturday, wanting your introduction, despite there clearly being something not right? We were. We stood by you, even though most of us disagreed with a passion with what you did. It went against what we believed as people, but we stood by you. Think about what you are doing to that relationship.
What happens to players after they leave United? Those who choose not to sign for us when they get the chance? Those who go on to bigger and better things are in a minority. Beckham? No. Ruud? No. Stam? No. Keane? No. Even Cristiano? Not at this stage. He’s learning the grass isn’t always greener, that other supporters aren’t quite as faithful or loyal as United supporters.
After all this, you still have a chance to put it right. You have two months before January, to put the rumours to rest. You can make a statement publically. You can do your talking on the pitch. Take that chance. Look at Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes. Look at Sir Bobby Charlton. Your chance to sit alongside them, to smash the goalscoring records, to notch this chapter as a minor hiccup, is in your hands. What does it matter, when you make as much money as you do, for an extra million here or there, when there is a chance of real footballing history? Stay at United and you will undoubtedly become our top scorer of all time. The top scorer of all time for the biggest club in the world? Surely that was one of things running through your mind in the playground?
If you come out now and state your desire to remain at United for the rest of your career – like you have in the past – then you will retain hero status before the press manage to wrestle it away from you in your silence.
But make no mistake, Wayne. United will move on with or without you. If you do move, it will be you who lives to regret it.
An Open Letter to Wayne Rooney | Manchester United Blog | The Stretty Rant
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If Rooney was greedy he would let his contract run out in 18 months and then get whatever he wanted so how is he greedy by saying go now!!
Good point from Robbie.
If Rooney was greedy he would let his contract run out in 18 months and then get whatever he wanted so how is he greedy by saying go now!!
Good point from Robbie.
No. What? I don't read or pay attention to the sports stories in newspapers.
Lets be honest.
Ronaldo was the worlds no1 player.
Tevez was a brilliant and har worker.
Rooney was hit and miss. Brilliant and Baffling at times. World Class - perhaps. Over rated for sure.
Now see where the money goes.
Ronaldo was the worlds no1 player.
Tevez was a brilliant and har worker.
Rooney was hit and miss. Brilliant and Baffling at times. World Class - perhaps. Over rated for sure.
Now see where the money goes.
Of course we will. And in a bit it will feel like any other transfer. But immediately, I'll admit, it feels a bit weird. I just never saw it coming, strangely enough. I read Rooney all wrong.
True, and his wife for that matter.
Might as well ship him out in January now. We last saw the real Wayne Rooney in the Bayern ties anyway. Some kind of imposter has been taking his place ever since.
Hope its not City. But I do want a big fee, although that could be tough to get given his contract situation.
Hope its not City. But I do want a big fee, although that could be tough to get given his contract situation.
That makes literally no sense. He can get whatever he wants now. And he doesn't have to wait 18 months for it.
I see some tossers have crept onto this thread claiming teh club is going because a player is leaving.
Kerist!
Kerist!