Rooney - Top 50

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Rooney is now number 49 in the United all time goalscorers' list with his 47 goals, having overtaken Jack Picken and Teddy Sheringham this weekend.
 
He needs eight more goals to enter Top 40, with Alex Dawson currently in 40th with 54 goals.
 
Top 50 United scorers:

Bobby Charlton - 249
Denis Law - 237
Jack Rowley - 211
George Best - 179
Dennis Viollet - 179
Joe Spence - 168
Mark Hughes - 163
Ruud van Nistelrooy - 150
Stan Pearson - 148
David Herd - 145
Ryan Giggs - 137
Paul Scholes - 135
Tommy Taylor - 131
Brian McClair - 127
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer - 124
Andy Cole - 121
Sandy Turnbull - 101
George Wall - 100
Joe Cassidy - 99
Bryan Robson - 99
Lou Macari - 97
David Beckham - 85
Eric Cantona - 82
Enoch West - 80
Frank Stapleton - 78
Sammy McIlroy - 71
Steve Coppell - 70
Brian Kidd - 70
Tom Reid - 67
Norman Whiteside - 67
Bob Donaldson - 66
Stuart Pearson - 66
Dwight Yorke - 66
Charlie Mitten - 61
Jack Peddie - 58
Tommy Bamford - 57
Harold Halse - 56
Albert Quixall - 56
Harry Rowley - 55
Alex Dawson - 54
Jimmy Hanson - 52
Frank McPherson - 52
William Whelan - 52
Steve Bruce - 51
Gordon Hill - 51
Roy Keane - 51
Arthur Lochhead - 50
George Mutch - 49
Wayne Rooney - 47
Jack Picken - 46
Teddy Sheringham - 46
 
Other current United players:

57th - Ronaldo - 40
65th - Saha - 36
157th - Smith - 11
165th - Silvestre - 10
173rd - O'Shea - 9
173rd - Richardson - 9
200th - Neville - 7
215th - Fletcher - 6
246th - Ferdinand - 4
246th - Rossi - 4
283rd - Heinze - 3
283rd - Park - 3
283rd - Vidic - 3
309th - Brown - 2
364th - Carrick - 1
364th - Evra - 1
364th - Larsson - 1
364th - Lee - 1
 
If he stays at United and plays for another 10 years, scores about 20 goals a season.... 10 x 20....
 
Michel04 said:
If he stays at United and plays for another 10 years, scores about 20 goals a season.... 10 x 20....

Doubt he will score an average of 20 a season, when you take into account injuries as well.

If he stays for another 10 years, he should reach 200 though.
 
Rooney and Ronaldo, if they stay as long as we should expect them to, could easily be somewhere near the top pf that list...
 
kafta said:
Rooney and Ronaldo, if they stay as long as we should expect them to, could easily be somewhere near the top pf that list...

I don't expect Ronaldo to stay for long
 
manutdlegend said:
He will do he will stay longer than most people think

Its all paper talk

Nothing to do with the paper talk.

I've said since he joined us that he won't be staying at OT for long. He will want to play for Real Madrid or Barca sooner rather than later.

I reckon next season will be his last at OT.
 
Suresh said:
Oh feck. He's off then. Those things are usually spot on.

Going off the topic a little bit, that list of top 50 scorers you posted, it makes one wonder, doesn't it. What if Bestie had not gone one more benders than jinxing runs, where would he be on that list?

Considering Best's United career was more or less over at 25-26, he would most probably have had close to 100 more goals if he'd applied himself properly and played at United until he was 30.
 
ManUinOz said:
Amazing that 3 of the top 4 played together. Feck that was an awesome team.

I envy those who got to see them regularly...

Also, 15 of the 50 players are from Sir Alex's time as the manager.
 
CnutOfAllCnuts said:
I envy those who got to see them regularly...

Also, 15 of the 50 players are from Sir Alex's time as the manager.

I was lucky enough to see Best, Law and Charlton. i envy those who saw the babes.

Those ten years older than me saw the babes but missed out on the great side just after the war....... and so on.
 
dicko said:
I was lucky enough to see Best, Law and Charlton. i envy those who saw the babes.

Those ten years older than me saw the babes but missed out on the great side just after the war....... and so on.

Old cnut!

:D
 
CnutOfAllCnuts said:
He's played 350 games for us. That's a goal every 35 games.

What's impressive about that?

ok then, I thought he only has played 200 games or so. He scored two goals in the same match against Liverpool in 2004 I think, that's impressing! :)
 
Man-United said:
ok then, I thought he only has played 200 games or so. He scored two goals in the same match against Liverpool in 2004 I think, that's impressing! :)

Started 318 games, made 31 sub appearances
 
Only Giggs, Neville, Scholes and Solskjaer have played more United games than Silvestre from the current squad.
 
Giggs - 695 games
Neville - 532
Scholes - 517
Solskjaer - 352
Silvestre - 349
Brown - 233
O'Shea - 228
Ferdinand - 197

The only players who have played more than 180 United games
 
Suresh said:
That brace makes him a legend of sorts. Very Forlan-esque.:D

agree, after those two goals, Silvestre was my favourite United player for a few months :)
And he's still one of my favourite because he won the game for us that night, and O'Shea scored an OG. :lol:
 
CnutOfAllCnuts said:
Giggs - 695 games
Neville - 532
Scholes - 517
Solskjaer - 352
Silvestre - 349
Brown - 233
O'Shea - 228
Ferdinand - 197

The only players who have played more than 180 United games
:eek:

how many of those did he play as the last 10 min sub?
 
CnutOfAllCnuts said:
Ferdinand - 197
The only players who have played more than 180 United games

didn't think Rio had so may games, because of his 8 month ban. If he stays fit he should go for 500 I think.
He's 29 this year, but will probably play five or six seasons at least until he quit.