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Post by BladeDJK on Oct 19, 2010 9:13:53 GMT -5
Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed Wayne Rooney wants to quit Manchester United.
The Old Trafford boss admitted he was "shocked" and "disappointed" to hear the news but said he had not fallen out with the England international, 24.
TBH I am gutted but also angry at Rooney's lack of loyalty
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Post by wyleecyotee on Oct 19, 2010 10:03:15 GMT -5
Once a blue, always a blue? Don't need him cos we got Yak and King Louis. Hopefully he goes to an Italian team so he learns to play under an Italian manager and gets good for the next Euro and World Cup.
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Post by Hammersmith Hardman on Oct 19, 2010 10:29:55 GMT -5
Well i'm surprised considering the stuff he's said in the past (wanted to finish his career off there and wanted a Man United tattoo).
I personally think (he'd want to) stay in England and wouldn't surprise me if he went to Man City.
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Post by McBlake on Oct 19, 2010 11:14:05 GMT -5
3 years of mediocre signings, crippling debt and lack of big players is finally taking its toll. I don't see Man Utd winning the league any time soon.
Think Rooney will go to Real in a part exchange for Benzema which would be a good move for both. On the other hand, he could be a money grabbing prick and go to City which would piss off a lot of people as well as show himself up.
If he goes on a free or part exchange, poor Everton ;D Apparently they had a 30% sell on clause.
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Post by wyleecyotee on Oct 19, 2010 11:30:31 GMT -5
3 years of mediocre signings, crippling debt and lack of big players is finally taking its toll. I don't see Man Utd winning the league any time soon. Think Rooney will go to Real in a part exchange for Benzema which would be a good move for both. On the other hand, he could be a money grabbing prick and go to City which would piss off a lot of people as well as show himself up. If he goes on a free or part exchange, poor Everton ;D Apparently they had a 30% sell on clause. Yeah we did but I think it only lasted 5 years so would have expired, I hope not and I hope City come in with £60m.
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Post by Red Dragon on Oct 19, 2010 12:03:42 GMT -5
Its sad to hear I expected him to stay. It was bout to happen sometime though. I just hope Fergie brings in someone really good to replace him but really I see him bringing in someone who will be great over time meaning we won't get any titles for a while. I see Rooney going to City which could easily lead them to the title.
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Post by OmegaGaijin on Oct 19, 2010 12:08:47 GMT -5
If he is/his agent are smart he would move to europe.
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Post by Callum1993 on Oct 19, 2010 12:26:56 GMT -5
I think he'll go to Madrid personally
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Post by Dan on Oct 19, 2010 13:08:19 GMT -5
Finally you United boys will realise what a tw*t he really is.
He's meant to be a leading role model and has the World at his feet. Yet his form for both Club and Country is declining every Game, he's in the papers off the pitch for all the wrong reasons, and now he's going to turn down a raised contract offer to possibly go to rivals City for more money. His attitude is completely wrong.
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Post by DC:UK on Oct 19, 2010 13:18:32 GMT -5
Im completely gutted. This time last year he was my hero, I got an England shirt signed by him for my 21st in May, got him on the back of my new United shirt, and now this... I just pray he doesn't go to City. Just because he is saying he wont sign doesn't mean its over, if anyone could talk him out of it then its Fergie. Im clutching at straws I know, but don't want to imagine it.
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Post by Albus Voldemort on Oct 19, 2010 13:21:36 GMT -5
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.
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Post by Himmy! on Oct 19, 2010 16:30:07 GMT -5
If he goes to City then thats nuts.
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Post by Dan on Oct 20, 2010 7:44:12 GMT -5
Personally I have a feeling he will go to Real Madrid. It's his only way of getting away from his bad form in the Premiership. He can't keep blaming Fergie for his mistakes. He's looking for a way out, Madrid will be the most sensible option. He can say he was looking for a new challenge etc.
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Post by wyleecyotee on Oct 20, 2010 8:09:20 GMT -5
Personally I have a feeling he will go to Real Madrid. It's his only way of getting away from his bad form in the Premiership. He can't keep blaming Fergie for his mistakes. He's looking for a way out, Madrid will be the most sensible option. He can say he was looking for a new challenge etc. I agree, Can't see Fergie selling to a main rivial like Chelsea and definately won't sell to City and those would be the only 2 clubs that could really afford the transfer cost and his wages. Madrid will hopefully make him a better player for England as well.
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Post by Hammersmith Hardman on Oct 20, 2010 11:49:01 GMT -5
Think Rooney would relish teaming up with Ronaldo again. He played his best Football alongside him. Don't want Higuain dropped though
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Post by McBlake on Oct 21, 2010 13:49:52 GMT -5
Apparently Wayne broke 3 crayons writing that statement.
Fair enough, I feel there is a bit of truth in there. When Scholes and Giggs retire they're squad is quite pish and their best attempt to replace them is an arrogant nobody in Smalling, an overrated Mexican and a laughable signing in Bebe. However he should be loyal to a manager that's been there and done that, Alex Ferguson's went through all of this with Man Utd before and came out on top, so he should be loyal to a manager that's made him a Premiership and Champions League winner and a manager that tried to help him through his disastrous World Cup and the allegations involving his personal life. All Man Utd need is a decent GK, a playmaker for when Scholes is gone and possibly a striker.
Rooney's not fooling anybody, he wants more money and he doesn't care if he has to show disgusting disrespect to the man that's made him who he is today to get it. He's nothing but a fat kid.
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Post by rfc1873 on Oct 21, 2010 19:04:28 GMT -5
Idiot. Hope he signs a new 5-year deal cause of that! Brother of... ?
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Post by Dan on Oct 22, 2010 5:28:46 GMT -5
He's saying that United lack aspiration and don't want to win Trophies. By saying that he's basically saying that he has bigger aspirations than the Club itself, which is a joke, especially to a Team as huge as Man United.
He wants a bigger Paycheck which is obvious, and to him it doesn't matter if he joins there biggest Rivals, he will do it. He's supposed to be a Role Model, the Star Man at one of the biggest Clubs in the World, and is already earning around £130,000 a week. Yet he is prepared to risk all of that and be a hate figure for what, an extra £30k a week?
The kid is an arrogant, full of himself idiot that thinks he's a lot better than what he is. This is what happens to Players when there is this much money in the game, and you big someone up so much.
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Post by Gazza on Oct 22, 2010 5:54:54 GMT -5
Idiot. Hope he signs a new 5-year deal cause of that! Brother of... ? LOL
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Post by The L.F.C Fan on Oct 22, 2010 6:05:20 GMT -5
I reckon he'll be Real Madrid-bound as well. Don't think he's the kind of player Barcelona want (like they even need him as well) don't think he'd go to Inter and doubt he'd want to stay in the Premier League either. Madrid seems the best option if he is definitely leaving
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